Appearance
The fuscous honeyeater is dull grey-brown to olive-brown above with buffy-grey underparts. The bill is black and the eye-ring dark. It has a small black and yellow plume formed by the rear edge of the ear coverts.
Naming
The fuscous honeyeater was previously placed in the genus "Lichenostomus", but was moved to "Ptilotula" after a molecular phylogenetic analysis, published in 2011, showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.References:
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