Fuscous Honeyeater

Ptilotula fusca ‡

Crusoe Reservoir, Bendigo, N Vic IMG_9532 20190930 - fuscus adult breeding: iris dark brown, orbital ring black;
bill & gape black.

Notes: Plain w. indistinct yellow plume w. black spot at upper end. Flight feathers broadly edged
olive-yellow giving bright yellowish panel in folded wing & outer tail. Nominate fusca breeding: bill
& gape all black; iris dark brown. Non-breeding: base of lower mandible, eye-ring, gape yellowish.
Ssp subgermanus smaller, paler w. olive-yellow wash on crown, face, chin & throat; unstreaked or
only very faintly streaked below. See Herberton Honeyeater further N. In dryer eucalypt forests.

Range from Morcombe & Stewart©(modified)