Meliphaga orientalis Meyer, AB, 1894

Hill-forest Honeyeater

Other common names: Mountain Honeyeater, Mountain Yellow-eared/Small Spotted Honeyeater,  Hill-forest/Mountain (Yellow-eared) Meliphaga, Lesser/Small Spot-breasted Honeyeater/Meliphaga

Taxonomy: Ptilotis flavirictus orientalis A. B. Meyer, 1894, southeast New Guinea.

Nominate race is dark greyish-olive above, forehead darker olive, dusky blackish-olive lores continued as dusky stripe behind eye, yellow lower ear-coverts forming small rounded patch, and orange-yellow gape merging with narrow and indistinct pale yellow rictal streak (not meeting pale ear-patch).