Cryptic Honeyeater

Meliphaga imitatrix ‡

Feathers&Friends, Julatten, FN Qld IMG_8907 20201009 - dining on Black Sapote

Notes: Small, slim olive honeyeater. Longer, slimmer, more down-curved bill than Yellow-spotted
or Lewin's. Iris blue-grey. Gape line may be deeper yellow than ear-patch, which is round w. fuzzy
extension at top; a narrow line of pale feathers under eye. Voice: simple notes; most common a
repeated "tick". — cf Graceful Honeyeater which has rounded ear-patch, lighter undertail & lower
belly, & several songs. Resident. Moist lowland rain-forests; up to 800m on Atherton Tableland.

Range from Morcombe & Stewart©(modified) — N of Cooktown to S of Ingham.