Black-eared Catbird

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Ptilonorhynchidae

Genus

Ailuroedus

Subspecies (8)

• Ailuroedus melanotis arfakianus

  western New Guinea (Arfak mountains of Bird's Head Peninsula)

• Ailuroedus melanotis astigmaticus

  northeastern New Guinea (mountains of Huon Peninsula)

• Ailuroedus melanotis facialis

  western New Guinea (Nassau and Jayawijaya mountains)

• Ailuroedus melanotis joanae

  northeastern Australia (northeastern Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland)

• Ailuroedus melanotis jobiensis

  north-central New Guinea (north slope of Western, Border, and Eastern ranges and coastal ranges from Foja Mountains eastward to Adelbert Mountains)

• Ailuroedus melanotis melanocephalus

  mountains of southeastern New Guinea

• Ailuroedus melanotis melanotis

  southern New Guinea, including Aru Islands (off southwestern New Guinea)

• Ailuroedus melanotis misoliensis

  Misool (Raja Ampat Islands, off western New Guinea)