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.
References
Sinclair, Ian & Ryan, Peter (2003) Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Struik, Cape Town.