Sclater's whistler


Sclater's whistler or the hill golden whistler, is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae found in the highlands of New Guinea.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The name commemorates the British zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater.

Subspecies

Four subspecies are recognized:P. s. soror – Sclater, 1874: found in north-western New GuineaP. s. klossi – Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: found in central and eastern New GuineaP. s. octogenarii – Diamond, 1985: found in the Kumawa Mountains of western New GuineaP. s. bartoni – Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: found in south-eastern New Guinea and Goodenough Island