Pycnopygius ixoides Salvadori, 1878

Plain Honeyeater

Other common names: (New Guinea) Brown/New Guinea/Nondescript/Olive-brown Honeyeater

Taxonomy: Ptilotis ixoides Salvadori, 1878, Sorong, Vogelkop Peninsula,New Guinea.

A medium-sized nondescript honeyeater with rather small head, and medium-small and only slightly decurved bill. Nominate race has top of head and neck dark olive-grey, fine blackish-brown mottling or streaking on forehead and forecrown becoming broader and bolder on hindcrown to hindneck, diffuse whitish supercilium from above rear of eye to side of nape; lores grey with fine blackish spockling; upperbody olive-brown, diffusely mottled ore streaked darker on mantle and back; uppertail and upperwing dark olive-brown, brighter olive edges on rectrices, fine buff tips on lesser and median secondary coverts, fine tuff fringes on greater coverts, fine olive-buff edges on remiges (forming large pale panel on folded wing); chin throat and underparts grey, faint and diffuse dusky streaks on upper breast; undertail dark grey. underwing dull pale rufous with dark grey trailing edge and tip; iris pale brown to reddish-brown; bill black to greyish-black or brownish-black; legs light grey.