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Species
Pycnopygius cinereus Sclater, PL, 1874
Nomenclature
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Family: MeliphagidaeGenus: Pycnopygius
SUMMARY
Marbled Honeyeater
Other common names: Grey/Grey-fronted/Greyish-brown Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Ptilotis cinerea P. L. Sclater, 1874, Hatam, Arfak Mountains, north-west New Guinea.
A medium-sized and rather drab honeyeater with medium-length solid bill. Nominate race has top of head blackishbrown, Fine grey streaking or scaling on forehead and forecrown becoming broader and bolder on nape and hindneck; side of head and neck dark brown to blackish-brown, diffuse and partial pale area surrounding eye formed by triangular blackish-speckled pale grey rear supercilium, blue-grey orbital ring and dark-speckled greyish-white crescent below eye; fine greyish speckling on lores, whitish patch ore streak of rear of eat-coverts, fine whitish malar streak; upperbody rich dark brown (some with olive tinge), feathers of mantle, back and scapulars with pale grey to olivegrey Fringes (giving diffusely mottled or streaked pattern); uppertail and upperwing rich brown, fine buff fringes on alula and median and greater secondary coverts, strongly tinged olive on greater primary coverts; fine olive-buff edges on remiges, more strongly tinged olive on secondaries (forming pale panel on folded wing); chin and throat dusky grey, mottled or barred off-white, underbody dusky brownish-grey with faint paler scaling, becoming brownishgrey and diffusely darker-mottled in ventral region; undertail brown-grey to dark olive-brown, underwing largely orange-buff with brownish-grey trailing edge and tip; iris brown, bare postocular skin blue-grey; bill black; legs light blue-grey.