Females of the available series from the Solomons forms differ from beehleri in being more uniform in color throughout, whereas an apparent adult female from New Ireland has a darker cap set off from the very dark olive-fuscous back, and a brownish patch on the upper abdomen, the feathers edged with paler brown.Frompapuensis of adjacent mainland New Guinea, beehleri differs by smaller size, and lacking the broad concolorous, lighter brown sides of head, neck, and upper breast, found in both sexes of that form.
