White-bellied whipbird
The white-bellied whipbird, also called the Mallee whipbird, is a species of bird in the family Psophodidae. It is endemic to southern Australia.Taxonomy
The species was formerly considered as a subspecies of Psophodes nigrogularis, the so shared the common name of western whipbird. The Clements Checklist refers to this species with the common name western whipbird to distinguish it from P. nigrogularis.
The white-bellied whipbird was described by the Australian ornithologists Frank Howe and John Ross in 1933. It was split from the black-throated whipbird based on a comparison of mitochondrial DNA sequences published in 2017.
Two subspecies are recognised:
