Philemon meyeri Salvadori, 1878

Meyer's Friarbird

Other common names: Dwarf Friarbird
Taxonomy: Philemon meyeri Salvadori, 1878, Rubi, Geelvink Bay, north-west New Guinea.
Monotypic.

Small rather grab and nondescript friarbird with proportionately long, moderately heavy and slightly decurved bill lacking proturberance at base, and with little bare skin on head. Plumage is uniformely dark grey-brown to dusky brown above, faintly and diffusely streaked blackish-brown, and paler grey-brown below, with small area of bluish black to blackish bare skin over lores and narrowly around eye, plumage becomes much browner with wear and fading, iris dark brown, bill black, legs slate-grey.