islands off southeastern New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago
Pachycephala melanura dammeriana
Damar (eastern Lesser Sundas)
Pachycephala melanura melanura
coastal northwestern Australia (Northwest Cape to northern Kimberley region)
Pachycephala melanura robusta
coastal northern Australia (northern Kimberley region to Yeppoon, east-central Queensland coast, including smaller southern, central, and eastern Torres Strait islands)
Pachycephala melanura spinicaudus
northwestern (Bintuni Bay, Bird's Neck) and southern New Guinea and offshore islands, northeastern Australia (northwestern Torres Strait islands)
Pachycephala melanura violetae
coastal central northern Australia (northeastern Kimberley region to Gulf of Carpentaria)
