Myzomela erythrocephala Gould, 1840

Male nominate race has dark red hood marked with narrow black loral stripe continuous with thin black ring around eye, sooty brown upperparts, dark red on rump and uppertail-coverts, red of hood and rear upperbody often patchily mottled black, uppertail and upperwing blackish-brown, tertials and median and greater secondary coverts with narrow grey fringes, remiges with thin grey edges sooty-brown band across upper breast grading into light brownish-grey below, undertail dark grey, underwing dark grey with mostly white lining, iris dark brown, bill black or blackish-brown, sometimes brown or pink-brown basal half of lower mandible, gape black or yellowish, legs dark grey to brown r black, soles yellow. Female is smaller than female, has head, neck and upperbody grey-brown, merging to paler grey-brown on lower throat, and with obvious pink-red forehead, anterior ear-coverts, malar area, chin and upper throat and sometimes a few dark pink-red flecks on crown and uppertail-coverts, uppertail and upperwing dark brown, fringes and edges as for male although edges of remiges can be slightly paler, breast light grey-brown, grading slightly paler on lower underbody, and merging to off-white in centre of belly, bare parts as for male, gape yellowish. Juvenile is very like female, but rump and uppertail-coverts slightly paler and distinctl warmer brown than rest of upperbody, fringes of secondary coverts and tertials broader and light brown, pink-red on face sometimes much fainter, base of lower mandible yellowish, yellow gape initially swollen, and iris and legs possibly paler, immature male not well known.