Golden-mantled Racquet-tail Prioniturus platurus Scientific name definitions

28 cm. Bill pale greyish; green on head with red spot on hindcrown bordered behind by larger lilac patch; dull orange lateral stripe across mantle ; rest of mantle, back and wing-coverts dull grey ; central tail feathers green above, with blackish spatules, lateral feathers green with blue edging and black tips; yellowish green on undersides. Female green. Immature like female with no spatules. Race talautensis darker with less grey upperparts; sinerubris also less grey, smaller, without red spot on crown.

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Small fruits and seeds taken in interior of forest from substage to lower canopy; fond of cultivated mangoes and reported to visit ripening corn at night.

Commonest vocalization a rolling screechy disyllabic “curleek”. When perched, also several rather nasal screechy or squeaky notes.