Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)

White-naped Friarbird (Philemon albitorques) - HBW 13, p. 682

French: Polochion à nuque blanche German: Manuslederkopf Spanish: Filemón Nuquiblanco
Other common names: Admiralty (Island)/Manus Friarbird

Taxonomy: Philemon albitorques P. L. Sclater, 1877, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago.
Forms a superspecies with P. fuscicapillus, P. subcorniculatus, P. moluccensis, P. plumigenis, P. buceroides, P. cockerelli and P. eichhorni. Formerly suggested that all may belong to a single species. Monotypic.

Distribution: Manus, in Admiralty Is, in N Bismarck Archipelago.