Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Green-backed Honeyeater (Glycichaera fallax) - HBW 13, p. 654
French:
Méliphage trompeur
German: Grünmantel-Honigfresser
Spanish: Mielero
Dorsiverde
Other common names: Green-backed Straightbill, Grey-headed/Puff-backed
Honeyeater; White-eyed Honeyeater (fallax); Pale-eyed
Honeyeater (poliocephala)
Taxonomy: Glycichaera
fallax Salvadori, 1878, Hall Sound, south-east New Guinea.
Sometimes
placed in genus Timeliopsis. Birds of this species on Salawati
of unknown racial identity, provisionally included in pallida.
Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- pallida Stresemann & Paludan, 1932 - West Papuan Is (Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati).
- poliocephala Salvadori, 1878 - Misool I (West Papuan Is), Aru Is and lowland NW New Guinea E to head of Geelvink Bay (lower Menoo R) and Onin Peninsula (Kapaur).
- fallax Salvadori, 1878 - Yapen I (Geelvink Bay) and lowland New Guinea E of Geelvink Bay and Onin Peninsula to Milne Bay.
- claudi (Mathews, 1914) - NE Queensland (E Cape York Peninsula S as far as Princess Charlotte Bay), in NE Australia.
- Least Concern
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