Black-chinned Honeyeater © 2004 Brian Furby

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Forms a superspecies with Strong-billed Honeyeater (Melithreptus validirostris). Subspecies laetior often treated as a separate species, but there is intergradation with nominate over broad zone in eastern Australia (Queensland south to north-central New South Wales).

Additional proposed subspecies are normantoniensis (from Normanton, in north-western Queensland) and carpentarianus (Homestead, on Campaspe R, in eastern Queensland), both regarded as intergrades, and parus (Exmouth Gulf, in Western Australia), synonymized with laetior.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• gularis (Gould, 1837)   -  Northern and eastern Queensland (from southern Cape York Peninsula) south to northern foothills of Great Divide in northern and north-central Victoria; south-eastern South Australia (Fleurieu Peninsula and southern Mt Lofty Ranges).
• laetior Gould, 1875   -  Western and northern western Australia east to north-western and northern Queensland (around southern and eastern Gulf of Carpentaria and southern Cape York Peninsula), thence south to north-central New South Wales. Considered by some authors to be a. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Golden-backed Honeyeater (Melithreptus laetior).

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