Eugerygone rubra Sharpe, 1879

Male nominate race has small white spot at base of forehead, rest of forehead dusky brown, face and ear- coverts dark grey, lores sooty black, broken white eyering in front and behind eye; otherwise dark crimson above, crown and hindneck slightly duller, upperwing dull blackish, inner primaries and secondaries with small white spot towards base of outer webs (forming oblique bar across folded wing), lesser wing- coverts dark crimson; tail black, outer rectrices tipped white, broadly so on outermost; light ashy grey below, breast and flanks darker, belly white, undertail- coverts and thighs sooty grey with dark crimson wash; iris dark brown; bill blackish, or black with red lower mandible; legs red to brown or black, feet yellowish to reddish. Female is similar to male but duller, lacks white on forehead, has upperparts yellowish olive- green, legs dark brown, feet brownish- yellow. Juvenile has body chocolate- brown, wing grey; immature is dark cinnamon- brown above, pale cinnamon- brown below. Race saturatior has upperparts brighter and more intensely coloured than nominate.