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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Papuan birder" data-source="post: 1203605" data-attributes="member: 31707">I just come to think of two possibly undescribed birds on New Guinea.One is a possibly new subspecies of the Island Trush Turdus poliocephalus from mainland Papua New Guinea; there is four described subspecies found on the mainland New Guinea (and several additional on close by Islands), in April 1987 Tim Flannery and Lester Seri collected three individuals of the Island Thrush at 3200m in the Star Mountains (Papua New Guinea side), the first records of the Island Thrush from this mountain range and they were initially believed to belong to the versteegi subspecies (found in the Snow Mts in West Papua).But some differences in measurements in the specimens collected by Flannery and Seri raise some questions if this could not be a undescribed subspecies, the source I have read about it in a article from 1995 and I have not read anything about it since.May have been included in some more recent pappers and maybe even confirmed as only a sub-population of Turdus poliocephalus versteegi, if anyone could shed any light on this I would be happy. The other is a rail from New Britain, in the Bismarck Archipelago, published in the Muruk Journal, possibly belongs to the Ralliana genus, being a member of the forest-rail was ruled out, first seen in the earlly 1990s I believe.</blockquote>