Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)

Yellow-throated Miner (Manorina flavigula) - HBW 13, p. 617

French: Méliphage à cou jaune German: Gelbstirn-Schwatzvogel Spanish: Mielero Goligualdo
Other common names: White-rumped/Yellow Miner; Dusky/Sombre Miner (obscura)

Taxonomy: Myzantha flavigula Gould, 1840, Namoi River, New South Wales, Australia.
Forms a superspecies with M. melanocephala and M. melanotis. Often treated as conspecific with latter, and hybridizes extensively with it; analyses of mitochondrial DNA, however, suggest that the two should be treated as separate species. Rarely, hybridizes with M. melanocephala. Dark race obscura has sometimes been regarded as a separate species. Races intergrade where they meet. Additional proposed races are clelandi (from Broome Hill, in S Western Australia), included in obscura; casuarina (Mt Casuarina, in N Western Australia) and.. View all taxonomy...

Subspecies and Distribution:

melvillensis (Mathews, 1912) - Melville I (Northern Territory).
lutea (Gould, 1840) - N Western Australia (Kimberley Division, including some coastal islands) and N Northern Territory (E to W Arnhem Land) S to eucalypt-acacia transition zone (c. 20° S).
wayensis (Mathews, 1912) - most of inland Australia from Western Australia and Northern Territory (S of Kimberley Division and Arnhem Land and, in S, NW of inner Wheatbelt) E to Murray-Darling Basin (N of Flinders-Grey Ranges) and S of E Gulf of Carpentaria.

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melvillensis (Mathews, 1912) - Melville I (Northern Territory).
lutea (Gould, 1840) - N Western Australia (Kimberley Division, including some coastal islands) and N Northern Territory (E to W Arnhem Land) S to eucalypt-acacia transition zone (c. 20° S).
wayensis (Mathews, 1912) - most of inland Australia from Western Australia and Northern Territory (S of Kimberley Division and Arnhem Land and, in S, NW of inner Wheatbelt) E to Murray-Darling Basin (N of Flinders-Grey Ranges) and S of E Gulf of Carpentaria.
obscura (Gould, 1841) - SW Western Australia from N Swan Coastal Plain S through inner Wheatbelt to Esperance district (mainly absent from far SW corner).
flavigula (Gould, 1840) - inland E Australia (W of Great Divide) from Queensland (SE Gulf of Carpentaria and base of Cape York Peninsula E to near Townsville), S to South Australia (S to Flinders Ranges and Adelaide Plains) and NW Victoria.