Nest
Cup-shaped, composed of fine strips and flakes of paperbark, bound with cobweb, lined with vegetable fiber, usually in an upright fork of a branch.
Eggs (Guide)
3; smooth, slightly lustrous, cream dotted with red-brown and underlying purple, forming a zone at the larger end; blunt-oval; about 23 x 17 mm.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Appear to be fed by both parents.
frater Sclater, 1874 - Vogelkop and northern slopes of Snow Mountains in Iraian Jaya.
canescens Salvadori, 1876 - Eastern Cape York Peninsula, occuring on passage or in non-breeding season on islands of Torres Strait and New Guinea, and probably in central southern New Guinea. Sometimes treated as a full species, Monarcha canescens.
kunupi Hartert and Paludan, 1934 - Weyland Mts, in west-central New Guinea.
periophthalmicus Sharpe, 1882 - Highlands of eastern and central New Guinea, west to Nassua Ranges, Irian Jaya, and Victor Emmanuel Ranges, central-western Papua New Guinea.
Similar Species
In all plumages with Black-faced Monarch (Monarcha melanopsis) and less likely with Spectacled Monarch (Symposiachrus trivirgatus) both of which lack the black upper wing and tail.
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