Glossy-mantled Manucode (Manucodia ater) [XC408777]
by Marc Anderson from Km14 Boystown Road, Kiunga, Western Province, Papua New Guinea (song)
Glossy-mantled Manucode (Manucodia ater) [XC140741]
by from Batanta Island, Papua Barat, Indonesia (song)
Subspecies
Sympatric with Jobi Manucode (Manucodia jobiensis), Crinkle-collared Manucode (Manucodia chalybatus) or Trumpet Manucode (Phonygammus keraudrenii) at various localities, but no cases of hybridization recorded. Geographical variation largely clinal. Distribution of subspecies subalter uncertain, and biogeographically odd.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
ater (Lesson, 1830) - Mainland New Guinea from Vogelkop eastern patchily to Huon Gulf and, in south, to Purari R.
subalter Rothschild and E. J. O. Hartert, 1929 - West Papuan Is (Gebe, Waigeo, Gam, Batanta, Salawati, Misool), Aru Is, and south-eastern peninsula of New Guinea (eastern from Kumusi R in northern watershed and, in south, from north-eastern Gulf of Papua).
alter Rothschild & Hartert, 1903 - Tagula I, in Louisiade Archipelago (off south-eastern New Guinea).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet