Ptiloprora erythropleura Salvadori, 1876

Nominate race has head and neck leaden grey, fine and dense pale greyish speckling or scaling on forehead and lores and in diffuse suborbital crescent, fine pale and diffuse suborbital crescent, fine pale dull olive edges on top of head and hindneck, upperparts dusky to blackish-brown with fine and obscure dull olive-grey streaking or scaling, olive-brown wash on rump and uppertail-coverts, upperwing-coverts varying edged rufous to very pale olive, pale olive edges on remiges, underbody pale leaden grey, fine off-white to pale grey feather edges on breast and centre on belly, chestnut-brown flanks, iris red, brownish-red or red-brown, bill black, sometimes blackish-grey, legs blue-grey to grey-blue or slate-grey. Sexes alike in plumage, male larger than female. Juvenile and immature not properly known, but plumage generally washed olive or creamy yellow to greenish-yellow, especially below.