It should be noted w.r.t. this split from Yellow-throated Miner that R. Schodde and I. Mason, in their recent new Directory of Australian Birds (Passerines) lump these two forms (again).

Black-eared Miner     Manorina melanotis
(Wilson)   1911
sc Australia.  Mallee scrub
split from: Manorina flavigula
insert after: Manorina flavigula
Leslie Christidis & Walter E. Boles,
The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Royal Australian Ornithologists Union Monograph 2