Yellowish-streaked Honeyeater (Ptiloprora meekiana) [XC409251]
by id from Rondon Ridge, Mount Hagen, Dei District, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (call)
Yellowish-streaked Honeyeater (Ptiloprora meekiana) [XC176051]
by John V. Moore from Mount Hagen, Dei District, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (call)
Subspecies
In eastern New Guinea, isolated records at Tari Gap (Southern Highlands), Trauna Gap, near Baiyer River Sanctuary (Central Highlands), and Mt Michael (Eastern Highlands) involve birds of unknown racial identity. May represent an undescribed subspecies (but specimen from Mt Michael intermediate between occidentalis and nominate).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
meekiana (Rothschild & Hartert, 1907) - Saruwaged Mts (Huon Peninsula), Herzog Mts and mountains of south-eastern New Guinea (including upper Mambare R and Mt Tafa-Efogi area).
occidentalis Rand, 1940 - Upper slopes of eastern Nassau Mts and western Oranje Mts, in western New Guinea.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet