Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Black-throated Honeyeater (Lichenostomus subfrenatus) - HBW 13, p. 595
French: Méliphage à gorge noire
German: Goldstreif-Honigfresser
Spanish: Mielero Gorjinegro
Other common names: Black-fronted/Sub-bridled Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Ptilotis subfrenata Salvadori, 1876, Hatam, Arfak Mountains, Vogelkop, north-west New Guinea.
Genus often subsumed in Meliphaga. Present species sometimes placed in Oreornis. Forms a distinctive species group with L. obscurus, L. frenatus, L. hindwoodi and L. chrysops, and all sometimes combined in a separate genus, Caligavis. Meliphaga albilineata and Meliphaga fordiana once considered to be closely related to present species. Geographical variation partly clinal, plumage becoming darker from W to E. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- subfrenatus (Salvadori, 1876) - Arfak Mts, in NW New Guinea.
- utakwensis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1915) - Weyland Mts and S slopes of Central Ranges (including Nassau Mts and Oranje Mts) E to Hindenburg Range, in WC New Guinea.
- melanolaemus (Reichenow, 1915) - N slopes of Central Ranges (including Nassau and Oranje Ranges) E to Victor Emanuel and Schrader Ranges.
- salvadorii (E. J. O. Hartert, 1896) - mountains of E New Guinea (E from Wharton, Bismarck, Kubor and Saruwaged Ranges).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in a tree moving, singing and flying away. Locality Lake Habbema, West Papua (Indonesia), New Guinea (ssp utakwensis)
Josep del Hoyo 17 July 2008 3 years ago 31 sec 3.5
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undulating song Locality Ambua Lodge, Tari Valley, Papua New Guinea (mainland), New Guinea
(ssp salvadorii)
dreyernp 18 July 1990 1 year ago 4 -
A sequence of song.
Locality Lake Habbema, West Papua (Indonesia), New Guinea
(ssp utakwensis)
Josep del Hoyo 17 July 2008 2 years ago 3
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