Spotted Honeyeater
Xanthotis polygrammus (Gray, GR, 1862)
Meliphagidae — Honeyeaters
Spotted Honeyeater Xanthotis polygrammus is a honeyeater of New Guinea in Australasia, where it breeds in moist lowland forest. It belongs to the family Meliphagidae and was first described by George Robert Gray in 1862. The bird has a dark head and neck marked with white spots, a pink ring of bare skin around the eye, and a dark back with small white markings. Its underparts are white with a lime tint and dark patterning, and the bill is black.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Meliphagidae — Honeyeaters
- Breeding range
- Australasia: New Guinea
