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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 Guinea
P. s. klossi
–
Ogilvie-Grant
, 1915: found in
central
and
eastern
New Guinea
P. s. octogenarii
–
Diamond
, 1985: found in the Kumawa
Mountains
of
western
New Guinea
P. s. bartoni
– Ogilvie-Grant, 1915: found in south-eastern New Guinea and
Goodenough Island
