Gray-hooded White-eye Heleia pinaiae Scientific name definitions

14 cm; 25–30 g. Very large white-eye. Head and neck are deep olive-grey, with slight brownish tinge on crown and ear-coverts, merging on nape into green mantle and side of neck; forehead and supraloral region dirty white, lores pale grey, broad white eyering interrupted by pale grey loral streak; flight-feathers and tail feathers blackish-brown, broadly margined green (except on primary P2); throat and side of breast deep greyish-olive, somewhat paler on chin, and becoming paler on flanks, which are washed with buff, and dirty whitish on middle of abdomen; undertail-coverts bright yellow; iris light reddish-brown; bill black, base of lower mandible dark yellowish-brown; legs brown-grey. Sexes alike. Juvenile undescribed.

Mountains of C Seram, in S Moluccas.

Montane forest at limits of tree-fern forest, 1100–2450 m; most common at higher elevations.

Not known.

Feeds on insect larvae, berries, small fruits and seeds. Singly and in pairs at lower elevations, where occasionally present in mixed-species foraging flocks; in flocks of up to 20 or more individuals at higher elevations. Frequents canopy; forages in densely foliaged tree crowns and in thick growths of arboreal epiphytes.

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Not globally threatened. Restricted-range species: present in Seram EBA. Fairly common but local.