Many-colored bushshrike

The many-colored bushshrike or many-coloured bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor) is a species of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.

The black-fronted bushshrike (C. nigrifrons) of southern and eastern Africa is sometimes included in this species.

It is sparsely present across the African tropical rainforest.


 * C. m. multicolor (Gray, GR, 1845)	— Sierra Leone to Cameroon ;
 * C. m. batesi Sharpe, 1908	— southern Cameroon to western Uganda and northwestern Angola ;
 * C. m. graueri (Hartert, 1908) — Albertine Rift montane forests.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.