Streak-headed White-eye Heleia squamiceps Scientific name definitions

12 cm; 14–15 g. Nominate race has crown dark sepia, becoming lighter inwards, feathers having grey base, white shaft streak and white edges at tip, sides of head grey; upperparts ­olive-green; throat and upper breast whitish, feathers with very narrow sepia outer edges, greyish-white of lower breast changing smoothly into yellow below, with distinctly greener flanks; iris dark red-brown; bill black; legs bluish-grey or green, soles yellow. Sexes similar. Juvenile with crown tinged greenish, and perhaps slightly paler yellow underparts. Races vary mainly in size and in plumage coloration: striaticeps has buffy-white throat, narrower white shaft streaks, and grey edges of crown feathers; analogus is smallest (with next race), has white throat lacking black scaly feather edges; heinrichi is smallest (with preceding race), has greyish-sepia crown with broad grey edges and inconspicuous white shaft streaks; stresemanni has more boldly patterned sepia crown, broadly bordered with grey and with both shafts and adjacent median parts of feathers boldly white; stachyrina is largest race, similar to nominate but with broader white shaft streaks and no white edges at tips of crown feathers.

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Primary montane forest and forest edge and secondary growth, at 1000–2500 m; absent from fragmented bush zone of tallest peaks.

Not known.

Diet includes fruits. In pairs and small groups; often in mixed-species foraging flocks in association with Zosterops japonicus montanus, Zosterops atrifrons, Sulawesi Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus sarasinorum), Turquoise Flycatcher (Eumyias panayensis) and Citrine Canary-Flycatcher (Culicicapa helianthea), Sulawesi Fantail (Rhipidura teysmanni), and Yellow-sided Flowerpecker (Dicaeum aureolimbatum) and Gray-sided Flowerpeckers (Dicaeum celebicum). Forages mainly in canopy, but ranges down to understorey. Appears to use probing techniques more than gleaning.

Song a warbled series, lasting 4–5 seconds, consisting of loud, clear, sibilant high-pitched notes, repeated at intervals of 5–9 seconds (or much less frequently). Generally silent, but occasionally a harsh chirruping trill .

No information.

Not globally threatened. Restricted-range species: present in Sulawesi EBA. Generally widespread and common. Not uncommon in C Sulawesi; apparently of restricted distribution in NE Sulawesi. Occurs in Lore Lindu National Park.