Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Long-billed Honeyeater (Melilestes megarhynchus) - HBW 13, p. 630
French:
Méliphage à long bec
German: Langschnabel-Honigfresser
Spanish: Mielero Piquilargo
Taxonomy: Ptilotis
megarhynchus G. R. Gray, 1858, Aru Islands.
Race
stresemanni possibly better merged with vagans, as
birds on Batanta I appear intermediate between the two. Proposed race
brunneus (from Siwi, in Arfak Mts) is synonymized with
nominate. Three subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- vagans (Bernstein, 1864) - Waigeo and Batanta, in West Papuan Is.
- megarhynchus (G. R. Gray, 1858) - West Papuan Is (Salawati and Misool), NW, S & E New Guinea (Vogelkop E to Weyland Mts and to Astrolabe Bay, Huon Peninsula and Milne Bay); Aru Is.
- stresemanni E. J. O. Hartert, 1930 - Yapen I and N New Guinea (Geelvink Bay E to Astrolabe Bay).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A perched bird.
Locality Taja, Jayapura Regency, West Papua (Indonesia), New Guinea (ssp megarhynchus)
mehdhalaouate 21 March 2008 2 years ago 4
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