General description:
New Ireland Friarbird
Other common names: Eichhorn’s/Helmeted(!) Friarbird
Taxonomy: Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and E. J. O. Hartert,
Phylogeny:
Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and E. J. O. Hartert, 1924, hills of south-west New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago. Forms a superspecies with P. fuscicapillus, P. subcorniculatus, P. moluccensis, P. plumigenis, P. buceroides, P. cockerelli and P. albitorques. Formerly suggested that all may belong to a single species. Monotypic.
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