Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)

Banded Honeyeater (Cissomela pectoralis) - HBW 13, p. 659

French: Méliphage à collier German: Brustband-Honigfresser Spanish: Mielero Bandeado
Other common names: Banded Myzomela

Taxonomy: Myzomela pectoralis Gould, 1841, Kimberley Division, Western Australia.
This species and Sugomel nigrum often placed in genus Certhionyx because of similarities in external appearance to Certhionyx variegatus; DNA-sequencing studies, however, indicate that the three species are unrelated. Monotypic.

Distribution: N Western Australia (S to about Broome, including a few inshore islands, e.g. Sir Graham Moore, Boongaree and Sunday I) E through Top End of Northern Territory (S to Barkly Tableland) to N Queensland (S to Atherton Tableland-Burdekin R-Hughenden).