A honeyeater of northern Australia. Adults have a silvery-white crown, black bare facial skin and casque, and males are slightly larger than females.
Adults have black bare facial skin and casque and a silver-white crown. Plumage is not sexually dimorphic; adult males are slightly larger than females.
The Northern Territory account records the species in open forest and woodland, especially around flowering eucalypts and paperbarks, as well as mangroves and monsoon forest. It gives October to February as the local breeding season.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.