Melidectes princeps

Head, neck and upperparts are black-brown, slightly darker on top and side of head, slightly warmer dark  olive-brown on rump and uppertail-coverts, and with sparsely feathered small patch of bare skin behind eye is orange, with some yellow and pale greenish, uppertail narrowly tipped brownish-grey on outer edges, and remiges finely edged olive-grey, chin and throat covered with long tufted off-white feathers, longest on chin and along side of throat, later forming long “beard” that reaches almost to angle of folded wing, underbody dark olive-brown, varying scalloped with grey-brown, most noticeably on breast and lower belly, with some light rufous brown mottling or scalloping on undertail coverts, undertail dark brown-olive, underwing dark olive-brown, some faint rufous-brown mottling on coverts, and silverly brownish-grey panel across bases of remiges, iris dark brown to dark reddish-brown, bill black, legs pale grey to pale blue-grey. Juvenile is not fully described. Immature or possibly juvenile said to be sooty black above and washed buff below, especially on belly, with bear dull yellowish-white.