Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)

New Ireland Friarbird (Philemon eichhorni) - HBW 13, p. 681

French: Polochion de Nouvelle-Irlande German: Eichhornlederkopf Spanish: Filemón de Nueva Irlanda
Other common names: Eichhorn’s/Helmeted(!) Friarbird

Taxonomy: Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and E. J. O. Hartert, 1924, hills of south-west New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago.
Forms a superspecies with P. fuscicapillus, P. subcorniculatus, P. moluccensis, P. plumigenis, P. buceroides, P. cockerelli and P. albitorques. Formerly suggested that all may belong to a single species. Monotypic.

Distribution: New Ireland, in N Bismarck Archipelago.