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Proposed subspecies macgillivrayi, described from north-eastern Australia (Lloyd I, off north-eastern Queensland), apparently indistinguishable in plumage or size from birds of this species in New Guinea and therefore treated as synonymous with sigillifera.

The following 11 subspecies are recognised:

• trichroa (Kittlitz, 1835)   -  Kosrae.
• sanfordi Stresemann, 1931   -  North-central and south-central Sulawesi.
• modesta Wallace, 1862   -  Northern Moluccas (Halmahera, Ternate, Tidore, Bacan).
• pinaiae Stresemann, 1914   -  Southern Moluccas (Buru, Seram).
• pelewensis Kuroda, Nagamichi, 1922   -  Palau Is.
• clara Taka-Tsukasa & Yamashina, 1931   -  Chuuk (Truk) Is and Pohnpei Is, in eastern Caroline Islands.
• sigillifera (De Vis, 1897)   -  New Guinea and some offshore islands (Manam I, Karkar I, D'Entrecasteaux Is and Louisiade Archipelago), Bismarck Archipelago (Umboi I, New Britain, New Ireland, Feni Is) and north-eastern Australia (north-eastern Queensland).
• eichhorni Hartert, 1924   -  St Matthias Is (in northern Bismarck Archipelago).
• woodfordi Rothschild & Hartert, 1900   -  Bougainville I and Solomon Is (Kolombangara, Guadalcanal).
• cyanofrons Layard, EL, 1878   -  Vanuatu (including Banks Is) and Loyalty Is.
• macgillivrayi Mathews, 1914   -  Eastern coastal Cape York Peninsula, south to Cairns and Atherton-Evelyn Tablelands, north-eastern Queensland. Questionably distinct from subspecies sigillifera.

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