Bougainville thrush

The Bougainville thrush is a species of bird in the thrush family Turdidae. It is found in the montane forests of Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands Archipelago.
It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the New Britain thrush with the combined taxa known as the black-backed thrush.

Taxonomy

The Bougainville thrush was formally described in 1982 by Dillon Ripley and Don Hadden from a specimen collected at an altitude of on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. They considered it to be a subspecies of the black-backed thrush and coined the trinomial name Zoothera talaseae atrigena. The epithet atrigena combines Latin ater meaning "black" with gena meaning "cheek". The Bougainville thrush is now considered to be a separate species based on its distinctive morphology.