Bob O'Hara  wrote or quoted:
> William Morse wrote:

> > By the way - the short article indicated that the birds did
"advertise" 
> > their toxicity by bright colors. But as they live on the same islands as 
> > birds of paradise, I tend to wonder.
> 
> Are they dichromatic?  In other words, are both sexes brightly coloured, 
> or only the male?  If both are brightly colured, then it adds strength 
> to your advertisement hypothesis.

``Another school of thought is that the bright colors are for mating, but 
  both male and female pitohui are colorful''

 - http://www.abvt.org/pitohui.htm
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