Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)

Rufous-banded Honeyeater (Conopophila albogularis) - HBW 13, p. 628

French: Méliphage à gorge blanche German: Rostband-Honigfresser Spanish: Mielero Pechirrufo
Other common names: Rufous-breasted/Red-breasted/White-throated Honeyeater

Taxonomy: Entomophila ? albogularis Gould, 1843, Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia.
May form a superspecies with C. rufogularis. Populations of New Guinea and Torres Strait proposed as race mimikae (described from Mimika R, in SW New Guinea), but appear not to differ in plumage or size from Australian populations. Monotypic.

Distribution: Patchily in lowland New Guinea, at Sorong (W Vogelkop), along Sepik R, MarkhamR and upper Musa R (in N), and (in S) from Triton Bay E to Trans-Fly and Fly R, and at scattered sites in SE lowlands from Kerema E to Milne Bay; Aru Is; islands in Torres Strait; and N Australia from Melville I and Top End of Northern Territory (S to 15° S, E in coastal and subcoastal areas to Gove Peninsula), Groote Eylandt, and E to N Queensland (Cape York Peninsula).