hooded pitohui

:	Animalia
:	Chordata
:	Aves
:	Passeriformes
:	Pachycephalidae
:	*Pitohui*
:	*dichrous*

Binomial name

Pitohui dichrous
(Bonaparte, 1850)

The Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) is a jay-sized endemic New Guinean songbird with black and orange coloration. The Hooded Pitohui, and two close relatives (the Variable Pitohui and the Brown Pitohui), are the first documented poisonous birds.

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According to what I read in MSN Encarta, a neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin is in the skin and feathers, which caused numbness and tingling in bird-touchers.

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