New Distributional Records and Taxa from the Outlying Mountain Ranges of New Guinea

Abstract

SUMMARYDIAMOND, JARED M. 1985. New distributional records and taxa from the outlying mountain ranges of New Guinea. Emu 85: 65–91.The mountains of New Guinea consist of the Central Range plus 19 outlying ranges. I report distributional and taxonomic novelties from the first explorations of four of these outliers, plus re-explorations of five others. The summit elevation and history of exploration are also described for each outlier. Thirty new outlier populations were discovered for superspecies represented by endemic species on outliers. New taxa described are three subspecies of Peneothello cryptoleucus (Kumawa Mts), Pachycephalopsis hattamensis (Yapen Island), and Melipotes fumigatus (Kumawa Mts), and a Pachycephala provisionally included in P. soror (Kumawa Mts). Taxa for which provisional diagnoses are formulated but which are not now named because of limited specimens include a Rallicula (Foja Mts) and races of Eupetes castanonotus (Foja and Kumawa Mts), Crateroscelis robusta (Foja and Kumawa Mts), ...