Melidectes torquatus Sclater, PL, 1874

Male nominate race has head and neck largely black-brown, merging to dark brown with blackish mottling on hindneck, large patch of bright orange-yellow bare skin surrounding eye, bordered above by rufous0buff rear supercilium curving over and behind rear edge of orbital patch, large rufous-brown patch behind ear-coverts, pinkish red to red gape wattle, fine silvery streaking, on ear coverts, mantle, back and scapulars grayish-brown, broadly scaled off-white to pale grey, merging into brown on lower back, rump and uppertail-coverts, upperwing dark brown.