New Taxa And New Records Of Birds From The North Coastal Ranges Of New Guinea

We report the ornithological results of field trips in 2005 and 2007 to the Foja Mountains of Indonesian New Guinea. Our subsequent analysis of the avifauna of this little-studied and isolated mountain group in the context of the biogeography of New Guinea’s north coastal ranges produced the following results: (1) a new subspecies of the mouse-warbler Crateroscelis robusta from the Foja Mountains; (2) evidence that C. robusta exhibits sufficient geographic variation to warrant subdivision into two or more allospecies; (3) a distinctive new subspecies of the Goldenface Pachycare flavogriseum from the northern ranges of Papua New Guinea; (4) conclusive evidence that the ‘lost’ bird of paradise, Parotia berlepschi, inhabits the Foja Mountains; and (5) several additional taxonomic and distributional records for the Foja Mountains. Bulletin British Ornithologists\' Club Vol. 130. No. 4. 2010. P: 277-285.