Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Plain Honeyeater (Pycnopygius ixoides) - HBW 13, p. 583
French:
Méliphage ocré
German: Bülbülhonigfresser
Spanish:
Mielero Bulbul
Other common names: (New Guinea) Brown/New
Guinea/Nondescript/Olive-brown Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Ptilotis ?
ixoides Salvadori, 1878, Sorong, Vogelkop Peninsula, New
Guinea.
Closest
to P. cinereus. Distributional limits and validity of races
poorly known, and listed ranges tentative. Race cinereifrons
possibly better synonymized with nominate. Proposed race simplex
(from middle Sepik region, in N New Guinea) considered
inseparable from proximus. Five subspecies provisionally
recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- ixoides (Salvadori, 1878) - NW New Guinea E to head of Geelvink Bay and, in S, to about Mimika R and including Weyland Mts.
- proximus (Madarász, 1900) - N New Guinea from Mamberamo R E to Astrolabe Bay.
- unicus Mayr, 1931 - NE New Guinea (Huon Peninsula and slopes of Herzog Mts).
- ixoides (Salvadori, 1878) - NW New Guinea E to head of Geelvink Bay and, in S, to about Mimika R and including Weyland Mts.
- proximus (Madarász, 1900) - N New Guinea from Mamberamo R E to Astrolabe Bay.
- unicus Mayr, 1931 - NE New Guinea (Huon Peninsula and slopes of Herzog Mts).
- cinereifrons Salomonsen, 1966 - S New Guinea from Mimika R E to upper reaches of Fly R (absent from S Trans-Fly), and apparently also to Port Moresby district.
- finschi (Rothschild & E. J. O. Hartert, 1903) - SE New Guinea on N watershed of ranges from Kumusi R E to Milne Bay and on S watershed E of Port Moresby (usually absent from S coast).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A perched bird.
Locality Taja, Jayapura Regency, West Papua (Indonesia), New Guinea (ssp proximus)
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