northwestern New Guinea (mountains of Bird's Head Peninsula; populations of Fakfak and Kumawa mountains probably also this subspecies)
Sericornis nouhuysi jobiensis
Yapen (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)
Sericornis nouhuysi monticola
southeastern New Guinea (high Owen Stanley Mountains)
Sericornis nouhuysi nouhuysi
highlands of western New Guinea (Weyland, Nassau, and Oranje mountains)
Sericornis nouhuysi oorti
northeastern New Guinea (Herzog Mountains and mountains of Huon Peninsula)
Sericornis nouhuysi stresemanni
central highlands of New Guinea; possibly a junior synonym of subspecies pontifex
Sericornis nouhuysi virgatus
northern slopes of Sepik-Ramu drainage (northeastern New Guinea), Toricelli Mountains, Victor Emanuel Mountains, Hunstein Range, and Sepik Mountains (north-central New Guinea)
