White-faced robin
The white-faced robin is a species of bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. It is found in New Guinea and eastern Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist [lowland forest] and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. This species was formerly placed in the genus Tregellasia.
Taxonomy
The white-faced robin was formally described in 1876 as Leucophantes leucops by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori based on a specimen collected in the Arfak Mountains on the Bird's [Head Peninsula] of New Guinea. The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek λευκος/leukos meaning "white" with ωψ/ōps, ωπος/ōpos meaning "face" or "eye". The white-faced robin was formerly placed in the genus Tregellasia, but based on a 2011 molecular genetic study by Les Christidis and coworkers, Tregellasia was merged into a more broadly defined Eopsaltria.Ten subspecies are recognised:
- E. l. leucops – mountains of Bird's Head Peninsula
- E. l. mayri – New Guinea
- E. l. heurni – New Guinea
- E. l. nigroorbitalis – New Guinea
- E. l. nigriceps – New Guinea
- E. l. melanogenys – northern New Guinea
- E. l. wahgiensis – mountains of eastern New Guinea
- E. l. albifacies – mountains of southeastern New Guinea
- E. l. auricularis – lowlands of southern New Guinea
- E. l. albigularis – northeastern Australia