Description

Notes: Adult male - report says only one was found on wild island and it was female. ÔÇ£a single example of this fine honeyeater (no. 481) was "shot on wild island." [several others were seen, but it was difficult to get a shot at them, they fly so rapidly. they were continually heard in the woods, both of the main island and on the outward. female: eyes brown; feet grey; bill dark, base of the lower mandible yellow; stomach had grasshoppers. this bird made a noise like the 'leather-head' of australia, but much louder.] the specimen is moulting, both new wing- and tail-feathers being not fully developed. the breast is slightly stained with yellow, as is often the case with the meliphagid.ÔÇØ

Citations: Zoology Part VIII: Report on the BIRDS. By P. L. Sclater, Bound in Volume 2,1881, p.28