Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Scrub Honeyeater (Meliphaga albonotata) - HBW 13, p. 591
French:
Méliphage buissonnier
German: Schneeohr-Honigfresser
Spanish:
Mielero Matorralero
Other common names: (Scrub/Southern) White-eared/(Scrub) White-marked
Honeyeater/Meliphaga, Scrub White-eyed/Southern/Diamond Honeyeater,
Scrub Mountain-honeyeater/-meliphaga
Taxonomy: Ptilotis
albonotata Salvadori, 1876, Naiabui, Hall Sound, south-east New
Guinea.
On
basis of molecular evidence, genus consists of two clades; present
species is part of group which contains also M. orientalis, M.
analoga, M. vicina, M. gracilis, M.
cinereifrons, M. mimikae, M. montana, M.
flavirictus, M. albilineata, M. fordiana and M.
reticulata. Formerly treated as conspecific with M. montana.
Proposed races setekwa (from upper Setekwa R, in Nassau
Range), auga (Mafulu, in Central Division) and gretae
(Nondugl, on Wahgi R, in Central Highlands), all consid.. View all taxonomy...
On basis of molecular evidence, genus consists of two clades; present species is part of group which contains also M. orientalis, M. analoga, M. vicina, M. gracilis, M. cinereifrons, M. mimikae, M. montana, M. flavirictus, M. albilineata, M. fordiana and M. reticulata. Formerly treated as conspecific with M. montana. Proposed races setekwa (from upper Setekwa R, in Nassau Range), auga (Mafulu, in Central Division) and gretae (Nondugl, on Wahgi R, in Central Highlands), all considered insufficiently differentiated from birds in rest of species’ range to warrant recognition. Treated as monotypic.
Distribution: Mainly hills and lower mountains, less often lowlands, of Vogelkop, Weyland, Nassau and Oranje Mts, Huon Peninsula, and SC & SE New Guinea.
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call with whistled note "kit" in the end Locality Varirata National Park, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (mainland), New Guinea
(Monotypic species)
dreyernp 10 July 1990 1 year ago 3
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