Plumages, Molts, and Structure

Natal Down

Undescribed.

Juvenile

This plumage in subspecies fulgidum is characterized by having an olive-gray head.

Adult

Female. Olive-brown head and upperparts, with a reddish-pink rump, and all-whitish underparts.

Male. Glossy purple-blue on head and upperparts, with narrow red band on breast, pale pink-orange below with narrow black central belly-stripe, pale gray-green or olive-gray flanks, and whitish lower abdomen.

No published information.

Bill

Black or blackish (1 Hartert, E. J. O. (1903). On the birds of the Key and South-East Islands, and of Ceram-laut. Novitates Zoologicae 10(3):232–254. Close , 2 Rothschild, W., and E. J. O. Hartert (1903). Notes on Papuan birds. [Part 4]. Novitates Zoologicae 10(2):196–231. Close ); said to have an orange bill base, at least in subspecies fulgidum (3 Eaton, J. A., B. van Balen, N. W. Brickle, and F. E. Rheindt (2016). Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain. Close ).

Iris

Deep brown, even blackish (4 Meyer, A. B. (1884). Notizen über Vögel, Nester und Eier aus dem ostindischen Archipel, speciell über die durch Herrn C. Ribbe von den Aru-Inseln jüngst erhaltenen. Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie 1:269–296. Close , 1 Hartert, E. J. O. (1903). On the birds of the Key and South-East Islands, and of Ceram-laut. Novitates Zoologicae 10(3):232–254. Close , 2 Rothschild, W., and E. J. O. Hartert (1903). Notes on Papuan birds. [Part 4]. Novitates Zoologicae 10(2):196–231. Close ).

Tarsi and Toes

Black or blackish; once reddish gray (4 Meyer, A. B. (1884). Notizen über Vögel, Nester und Eier aus dem ostindischen Archipel, speciell über die durch Herrn C. Ribbe von den Aru-Inseln jüngst erhaltenen. Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie 1:269–296. Close , 1 Hartert, E. J. O. (1903). On the birds of the Key and South-East Islands, and of Ceram-laut. Novitates Zoologicae 10(3):232–254. Close , 2 Rothschild, W., and E. J. O. Hartert (1903). Notes on Papuan birds. [Part 4]. Novitates Zoologicae 10(2):196–231. Close ).

Linear Measurements

Overall length ca. 9 cm (5 Coates, B. J., and K. D. Bishop (1997). A Guide to the Birds of Wallacea: Sulawesi, The Moluccas and Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Dove Publications, Alderley, Queensland, Australia. Close , 3 Eaton, J. A., B. van Balen, N. W. Brickle, and F. E. Rheindt (2016). Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain. Close ).

Other linear measurements; very few data.

Wing length (males, sample sizes unreported): subspecies keiense 55‒56 mm (6 Salomonsen, F. (1961). Notes on flowerpeckers (Aves, Dicaeidae). 4. Dicaeum igniferum and its derivatives. American Museum Novitates 2057:1–35. Close ), subspecies fulgidum 53‒55 mm (6 Salomonsen, F. (1961). Notes on flowerpeckers (Aves, Dicaeidae). 4. Dicaeum igniferum and its derivatives. American Museum Novitates 2057:1–35. Close ). Apparently no other published data.

Mass

No published data.