Meliphaga flavirictus Salvadori, 1880

Yellow-gaped Honeyeater

Other common names: Yellow-gaped Meliphaga

Taxonomy: Ptilotis flavirictus Salvadori, 1880, Fly River, south New Guinea.

Nominate race is rather pale grayish-olive above, side of head grayer, and with dark grayish lores, pale yellowish-white lower ear-coverts (forming small patch), and prominent bright yellow gape that merges with conspicuous yellowish-white to pale orange-yellow rictal streak, latter bordered below by narrow pale olive malar stripe and only narrowly separated from pale ear-patch, upperwing dark brown, coverts and alula with olive fringes, remiges with olive outer edges and yellowish with outer edges, grayish below, yellowish wash on chin and throat.