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Species
Timeliopsis fallax Salvadori, 1878
Nomenclature
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Family: MeliphagidaeGenus: Timeliopsis
Media
SUMMARY
Small nondescript honeyeater with almost straight moderately long and pointed bill. Nomiante race has head and neck greyish olive-brown, slightly paler on lores, check and ear-coverts, narrow, pale yellow eyering, pale yellowish chin and throat with olive mottling, upperbody dark olive, yellow tinge on rump and uppertail-coverts, upperwing olive-brown, fine pale olive edges and tips on coverts and remiges, uppertail dark olive-brown with fine and diffuse olive edges, underbody dull yellowish, undertail brownish grey, underwing yellowish with brownish-grey remiges, iris light blue-grey, bill grey-lack on upper mandible, paler horn-coloured on lower, gape pinkish-buff, legs blue-grey to dull grey. Sexes alike in plumage, male slightly larger than female. Juvenile is very like adult but duller, with slightly paler face, aple and inconspicuous eyering, pale yellow fleshy gape, and brown iris. Pallida like nominate but greyer, poliocephala has bill intermediate between nominate and claudi.