Dicrurus occidentalis Fuchs, Douno, Bowie, Fjeldså, 2018

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LITERATURE. — Dowsett (1993); Portier et al. (2002); Balanca et al. (2007); Pavia et al. (2012); Dowsett et al. (2013); Borrow & Demey (2014); Fuchs et al. (2017); Fuchs et al. (2018).

MUSEUM MATERIAL. — MCCI 3370.

FIELD DATA. — GBIF; WABD.

STATUS. — Resident.

REMARK. — The Square-tailed Drongo of western Africa, previously attributed to Dicrurus ludwgii (A. Smith, 1834), was recently described as a new species, Dicrurus occidentalis (Fuchs, Douno, Bowie & Fjeldså, 2018), for whose description the specimen from Burkina Faso (MCCI 3370) collected in the Comoé-Léraba classified forest, Cascade Region, 18.III.2011, constituted the northernmost sample (Fuchs et al. 2018).