Abstract
White-eared Honeyeater Nesoptilotis leucotis ranges broadly across southern Australia, where it is a constituent of eucalypt forest and woodland communities. A recent phylogeographic study recovered deep divergence between western and eastern populations. Within the western phylogroup are two allopatric populations that are differentiated by morphometrics, plumage coloration and voice. The eastern of the two, which occupies mallee woodland on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, is described here as a new subspecies.
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Andrew Black "A new subspecies of White-eared Honeyeater Nesoptilotis leucotis (Meliphagidae)," Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139(2), 164-172, (17 June 2019). https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v139i2.2019.a9
Received: 12 February 2019; Published: 17 June 2019
