Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler (Ptilorrhoa castanonota) [XC23916]
by Andrew Spencer from Varirata National Park, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea (alarm call)
Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler (Ptilorrhoa castanonota) [XC742003]
by Sam Woods from Gobe ridge, Kikori basin, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (call)
Subspecies
Several recently discovered populations represented by extremely few, if any, specimens. Thus, racial identity of those on Yapen I and others in Wandammen Mts, Bomberai Peninsula (Fakfak Mts, Kumawa Mts) and Gauttier Mts (near western part of northern coast) undetermined.
The following 7 subspecies are recognised:
gilliardi (Greenway, 1966) - Batanta I, in north-western New Guinea.
castanonota (Salvadori, 1875) - Vogelkop (Tamrau Mts, Arfak Mts), in north-western New Guinea.
saturata (Rothschild & Hartert, 1911) - Nassau Mts, in west-central New Guinea.
uropygialis (Rand, 1940) - Northern slopes of Oranje Mts and central North Coastal Range (Torricelli Mts), in west-central and northern New Guinea.
buergersi (Mayr, 1931) - North-eastern New Guinea (Sepik Mts, Adelbert Mts, probably also western Finisterre Mts).
par (Meise, 1930) - Saruwaged Mts, in Huon Peninsula (north-eastern New Guinea).
pulchra (Sharpe, 1882) - Mountains of south-eastern New Guinea (from Herzog Mts and Mt Karimui east to eastern Owen Stanley Range).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet