The blue- eyed honey bird [2] ( lat. Entomyzon cyanotis ) is a New Guinean and Australian species of passerine birds from the family of honey birds ( Meliphagidae ), distinguished into a monotypic genus of blue ear honey beetles ( Entomyzon ) [3] . The length of the body is 27-30 cm [4] .
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Subspecies
- Entomyzon cyanotis griseigularis - the south of New Guinea and the north of Australia ( Cape York Peninsula , in the north of Queensland) [1] ;
- Entomyzon cyanotis albipennis - from the north of Western Australia to the east through the Top-End in the Northern Territory (including Melville Island) to the extreme northwest of Queensland [1] ;
- Entomyzon cyanotis cyanotis - east Australia - from the Cape York Peninsula south to Victoria and northeast South Australia [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Taxonomy and distribution (English) . Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) . IBC.Lynxeds.com. The date of circulation is February 3, 2011. Archived April 2, 2012.
- ↑ Boehme RL , Flint V. Ye. The five-language dictionary of animal names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Under total. ed. Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang, "RUSSO", 1994. - p. 385. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Entomyzon cyanotis (English) . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
- ↑ Linda Groom. Artist: George Raper's Birds and Plants of Australia. - National Library of Australia, 2009. - p. 61. - 146 p. - ISBN 9780642276810 .