Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)

Red-headed Myzomela (Myzomela erythrocephala) - HBW 13, p. 648

French: Myzomèle à tête rouge German: Rotkopf-Honigfresser Spanish: Mielero Cabecirrojo
Other common names: (Mangrove) Red-headed Honeyeater, Mangrove Red-headed Myzomela

Taxonomy: Myzomela erythrocephala Gould, 1840, King Sound, north Western Australia.
Forms a superspecies, and sometimes treated as conspecific, with M. dammermani and M. kuehni; all three closely related to the M. cardinalis superspecies. Races intergrade in C & S Torres Strait. Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

infuscata W. A. Forbes, 1879 - Aru Is, coastal S New Guinea (Triton Bay E to Domara, E of Cape Rodney) and islands of Torres Strait.
erythrocephala Gould, 1840 - islands of C & S Torres Strait, and from N Western Australia (near Broome, in S Kimberley Division) E along coast, including offshore islands and islets (such as Melville I and Sir Edward Pellew Group, in Northern Territory), to N Queensland (Cape York Peninsula S on E coast to Princess Charlotte Bay).