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Species
Lichenostomus versicolor Gould, 1843
Nomenclature
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Family: MeliphagidaeGenus: Lichenostomus
Species:
Lichenostomus versicolor Gould, 1843
Usage:
valid
Vernacular names:
Vernacular name:
Varied Honeyeater, Yellow-streaked Honeyeater
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SUMMARY
Varied Honeyeater
Other common names: Yellow-streaked Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Ptilotis versicolor Gould, 1843, Cape York Peninsula, north-east Queensland, Australia.
Nominate race has top of head and neck olive finely streaked darker, with dark grey forehead, dark mask, bordered below by conspicuous yellow stripe, and with large dirty white patch on lower side of neck, upperbody olive with diffuse brown mottling, merging into brownish on rump and uppertail/coverts, latter mottled olive, tail brownish/olive with olive green side, uperwing brown, with olive margins of coverts, edges of secondaries and primaries, largely yellow below, with strong olive-green streaking.