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Species
Eulacestoma nigropectus De Vis, 1894
Nomenclature
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Family: FalcunculidaeGenus: Eulacestoma
SUMMARY
Distinctive, with deep bill laternally compressed, upper mandible hooked. Male has top of head and upperparts ochraceous olive, more golden on forehead, face and scapulars, lores black, large circular rose- pinkwattle from gape to side of throat on each side; upperwing sooty black or blackish- brown, remiges edged olive- green, wing- covert sooty – black; tail blackish- brown, rectrices edged olive- green; chin and upper throat yellow, lower throat and breast black with olive feather fringes, remainder of undrparts olive- green; iris dark reddish- brown; bill sooty black; legs grey. Female lacks wattle, is ochraceous olive above, pale olive below, breast fainty barred whitish, iris brown, bill greyer. Juvenile is rusty chestnut above, wing- coverts rusty, remiges and rectrices edged with rusty chestnut, breast grey with rusty wash; immature like female, but retains juvenile wing- coverts.