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Species
Microeca flavigaster Gould, 1843
Nomenclature
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Family: PetroicidaeGenus: Microeca
Media
SUMMARY
Nominate race is olive- brown above, rump slightly darker, with narrow dusky loral stripe, narrow diffuse off- white supercilium, white broken eyering above and below eye, greyish- brown ear- coverts; upperwing dark brown, narrower pale edges on wing- coverts and basal primaries, somewhat broader edging of secondaries and tertials; tail dark olive- brown, rectrices narrowly edged olive; chin and throat white, underparts lemon- yellow, slight pale grey wash on side of breast; iris dark brown; bill black, pale base of lower mandible; legs dark grey. Sexes similar. Juvenile has pale spots on tips of feathers of upperparts and wing- coverts, underpart feathers tipped olive- brown, bill and legs lighter than adult; immature similar to adult, but with pale – tipped juvenile wing- coverts. Race laetissima is somewhat brighter than nominate; flavissima is much yellower than both; tarara is like previous, but darker above and paler below; laeta is similar to last but yellower overall, with darker bill; tormenti is distinctive, lacks yellow tones in plumage, is grey- brown above, back and rump washed olive, wing dark brown, secondaries edged white, wing- coverts grey- brown with olive wash, tail dark brown, whitish spot on inner webs of outer three pairs of rectrices, buff- grey below, belly whiter.