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Species
Meliphaga albonotata Salvadori, 1876
Nomenclature
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Family: MeliphagidaeGenus: Meliphaga
SUMMARY
White-marked Scrub Honeyeater
Other common names: (Scrub/Southern) White-eared/(Scrub) White-marked Honeyeater/Meliphaga, Scrub Whiteeyed/ Southern/Diamond Honeyeater, Scrub Mountain- honeyeater/- meliphaga
Has top and side of head and neck and entire upperbody greyish-olive, with blackish lores, white lower ear-coverts forming small rounded ear-patch, and bright yellow or orange-yellow gape merging with narrow and contrastingly paler (pale yellow or cream) rictal streak (which does not meet pale ear-patch); upperwing-coverts and alula dark brown with yellowish-olive fringes, remiges dark brown with yellowish olive outer edges and pale yellowish-buff inner edges; tail fothers dark brown with yellowish-olive outer edges and pale yellowish-buff inner edges;