Ptiloprora meekiana Rothschild & Hartert, 1907

Nominate race has top and side of neck and upperbody yellowish-olive with bold blackish-olive streaking, streaks fine on top of head and hindneck, broader elsewhere, most prominent on mantle and back, streaking on side of head fairly dense, giving diffusely masked appearance in which pale eye prominent, upperwing and uppertail blackish-brown to dark brown, darker than upperparts, narrowyellowish-olive edges on upperwing-coverts, remiges and rectrices, pale yellowish-olive below, with paler yellowish chin and throat and yellowish belly, strong dusky olive streaking throughout, strongest on throat, yellowish tuft at side of breast below angle of wing, undertail dusky brown, underwing pale yellowish with dark trailing adge and tip, iris light grey to greenish-grey, bill black, grey lower mandible and cutting edges, gape olive, legs blue-grey. Sexes alike in plumage, male larger than female. Juvenile and immature apparently undescribed. Race occidentalis is on average larger than female with apparently shorter bill than nominate, also brighter all over, greenish above, with brighter rump and wing and tail edges, brighter throat with darker dusky streaking, and brighter yellowish underbody.