Meliphaga mimikae Ogilvie-Grant, 1911

16.5-17 cm; male 24-32.5 g, female 22-29 g (bastille). Nominate race has top and side of head and neck and upperparts dark greyish-olive to brownish-olive, with grey tinge on forehead; blackish-olive lores, pale olive eyering, yellow lower ear-coverts (forming fairly large patch), and yellow to dull orange gape that meets fairly narrow and contrastingly paler yellow rictal streak (not extending to pale ear-patch); upperwing-coverts and alula dark brown with dark olive –green outer edges and olive-buff or pale buff inner edges; tail feather-ears dark brown with yellow-olive outer edges; olive grey below, pale yellowish tinge or faint streaking on belly, and with darker brownish mottling on chin to upper belly; underwing-coverts olive-ochre to olive-yellow; iris brown or brownish-grey; bill blackish; legs grey. . Juvenile undescribed. Race granti is larger than nominate, has greener upperparts, greyer forehead, more prominent mottling on underparts; bestille is similar in size to nominate but darker, and with more prominent mottling below.