Pale-shouldered Cicadabird Edolisoma dohertyi Scientific name definitions

20–24 cm. Male is light bluish-slate above, darker on head and neck; forehead, lores, orbital region, side of head, ear-coverts, chin and throat black; upperwing-coverts light grey; primaries and primary coverts black, inner primaries tipped grey-white, secondaries and tertials black with pale grey margins and greyish-white inner webs; rectrices black, tipped grey, central pair dark grey with black subterminal band and grey tip; underparts, axillaries and underwing-coverts dark grey; iris dark brown, bill black, legs dark grey to blackish. Distinguished from E. tenuirostre (of race emancipatum) by darker edges of upperwing-coverts and secondaries, and black forehead, face and throat. Female differs from male in having white flecks on ear-coverts , more white on edges of secondaries and upperwing-coverts, and white underside with dusky grey barring. Juvenile and immature undescribed.

W Lesser Sunda Is (Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba).

Harsh call  , also described as a pleasant, rasping “queep”; song 3 grating notes, rather like rasp of a cicada (Cicadidae).