Black-throated Honeyeater (Caligavis subfrenata) [XC140361]
by Bas van Balen from Darnell Ridge, Freeport, Papua, Indonesia (song)
Black-throated Honeyeater (Caligavis subfrenata) [XC824978]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from Rondon Ridge Mount Hagen Rural LLG (near Mount Hagen), Dei District, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (call)
Subspecies
Genus often subsumed in Meliphaga. Present species sometimes placed in Oreornis. Forms a distinctive species group with Obscure Honeyeater (Caligavis obscura), Bridled Honeyeater (Bolemoreus frenatus), Eungella Honeyeater (Bolemoreus hindwoodi) and Yellow-faced Honeyeater (Caligavis chrysops), and all sometimes combined in a separate genus, Caligavis. Subspecies albilineata and fordiana of White-lined Honeyeater (Microptilotis albilineatus) once considered to be closely related to present species. Geographical variation partly clinal, plumage becoming darker from west to east.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
subfrenata (Salvadori, 1876) - Arfak Mts, in north-western New Guinea.
utakwensis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1915) - Weyland Mts and southern slopes of Central Ranges (including Nassau Mts and Oranje Mts) east to Hindenburg Range, in west-central New Guinea.
melanolaema (Reichenow, 1915) - Northern slopes of Central Ranges (including Nassau and Oranje Ranges) east to Victor Emanuel and Schrader Ranges.
salvadorii (E. J. O. Hartert, 1896) - Mountains of eastern New Guinea (eastern from Wharton, Bismarck, Kubor and Saruwaged Ranges).