Dicaeum geelvinkianum Meyer, AB, 1874

Male nominate race has bright red crown, rump and uppertail-coverts, rest of upperparts very dark greenish, upperwing and tail dark brown, shoulder darker with slight bluish gloss; throat white; red patch on chest, rest of underparts olive[grey, pectoral tufts white, centre of belly yellowish-buff, bent and undertail-coverts yellowish; iris brown; bill and legs blackish. Female is similar to male, but lacks red on chest, is paler on belly. Juvenile is similar to female, but little or no red above, bill mostly pale. Races differ mainly in shade of red on dorsal surface, and extent of red below on male (folowing details refer to male unless otherwise stated): rubrocoronatum has vermilion crown and rump, rest of upperparts blackish, glossed purple and blue, with dark olive lower back, is more yellow below than nominate, has very small red pectoral patch, female slightly glossed blue on dark greenish-brown upperparts; rubrigulare differs from previous in having foreneck entirely red; albopunctatum differs from last in having white areas between red tip and dusky base of feathers of head, rump and uppertail-covers, and red pectoral patch extends over chin, throat and side of breast; setekwa is very dark olive-green above, with vent and undertail-coverts white or pink; maforense differs from previous in having dull dark red crown, rump and uppertail-coverts, and yelloeish vent and undertail-coverts; misoriense has much less red on breast than previous, and is duller above, with bright carmine rump; diversum has lighter, more scarlet, crown and uppertail-coverts than rubrocoronatum, is more steel-blue on upper surface (which has more of an olive tinge); centrale is larger than preceding race, slightly darker above, has more greyish breast and lighter flanks; obscurifrons is similar in size to last, but is greener on upperparts, darker below, and red on head and uppertail-coverts duller, more brownish-tinged; violaceum is similar to rubrocoronatum, but duller and lighter above, with purple-violet floss, and red of crown, rump and breast darker, underparts more grey, with greyish-olive abdomen.