This olive-brown honeyeater has a yellow patch on the side of its neck and uses dry eucalypt forest and woodland in eastern Australia. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.
It is olive-brown with a yellow patch on the side of the neck. Adults have a black bill; juveniles have a yellowish bill base and pale eye-ring.
It inhabits dry eucalypt forests and woodlands. Some birds move to lower elevations in winter.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.