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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