Meliphaga gracilis Gould, 1866

Graceful Honeyeater

Other common names: Graceful/Slender-billed Meliphaga, Southern Graceful/Slender-billed/Grey-breasted/Lesser Yellowspotted/ Little Yellow-spotted/Eastern Graceful Honeyeater

Taxonomy: Ptilotis gracilis Gould, 1866, Cape York, north Queensland, Australia.

Nominate race is mostly dark olive above, sometimes faintly darker on forehead, grading across side of head to paler grayish-olive on chin and throat (in best views yellow tinge on chin may be visible), with diffusely dark lores, prominent yellow spot on rear ear-coverts (varying from rounded to diamond-shaped, never crescentic), short yellow to orange-yellow gape (usually brighter and more orange than ear-spot)that meets short, thin pale yellow rictal streak; remiges and edges of tail brighter yellow-olive than upperparts; underparts pale olive-grey, slightly paler than upperparts, with narrow and inconspicuous yellowish stripe in centre of belly; undertail olive-grey, underwing pale grey; iris grey-brown or bluish-grey; bill black;legs pale to dark grey or grayish-brown. Sexes alike in plumage,