Yellow-bellied Longbill (Toxorhamphus novaeguineae) - HBW 13, p.
338 French: Toxoramphe à ventre jaune Spanish: Picudo
Ventrigualdo Other common names: Green-crowned/Canary/New Guinea
Longbill, Canary Bowbill/False-sunbird Taxonomy: Cinnyris
NovaeGuineae Lesson, 1827, Manokwari, north-west New Guinea.
Genus was in the past usually included within the honeyeater
family (Meliphagidae), but DNA studies indicate that it belongs
with present family. Present species and T. poliopterus form a
species pair, the two replacing each other altitudinally, with
only marginal overlap. Two subspecies recognized. Subspecies and
Distribution: - novaeguineae (Lesson, 1827) - West Papuan Is
(Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, Misool), Yapen I (in Geelvink Bay)
and N & W mainland New Guinea (E to Astrolabe Bay and Ramu R
and, in S, to Etna Bay). - flaviventris (Rothschild & E. J. O.
Hartert, 1911) - Aru Is, and S New Guinea from Utakwa E to
Lakekamu R. - Least Concern Enlarge map - No sound recordings
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