I have further googled Coconut Lorikeet, and looked up the field
guides. I have just looked up HANZAB. This is of course a little
dated now, but it does state a separate sub species on northern Cape
York and the Torres Strait and nearby PNG. It is sub species T. h.
caeruleiceps.
It looks like the IOC has split Rainbow Lorikeet (formerly about 22
sub species), but kept the common name with the Australian species T.
mollucanus rather than the former nominate which is now called
Coconut Lorikeet. So it appears that Coconut Lorikeet in Australia
is T. h. caeruleiceps.
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