Derivation
Ar'-ses - L., Arses, a raising of the voice: tel-es-coph-thal'-mus - telescope (intended to mean spectacles); Gk, ophthalmos, eye - alluding to the spectacled appearance produced by the bare skin around the eyes
Frilled Monarch (Arses telescopthalmus) [XC530350]
by Marc Anderson from near Marandan Weser, Batanta, Indonesia (song)
Frilled Monarch (Arses telescopthalmus) [XC268317]
by Frank Lambert from Kwatu Lodge (clearing location), Ketu River (Elevala River tributary), Western Province, Papua New Guinea (song)
Nest
Like a miniature basket or hammock, composed of thin dried fern-stalks and vine tendrils, lined with fine rootlets, attached to thin parallel stems of a vine, placed in a tree or on a vine, up to 10 m above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
2; slightly glossy, pale pink, freckled with red-brown, chestnut and fainter purple-grey particularly at the larger end; oval; about 19 x 14 mm. Incubation: about 13 days; by both sexes.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fed by both parents.
Subspecies
The following 7 subspecies are recognised:
telescopthalmus (Garnot, 1827) - West Papuan Island (Salawati, Misool) and mainland north-western New Guinea (east to head of Geelvink Bay and, on south coast, to Etna Bay).
batantae Sharpe, 1879 - West Papuan Islands (Waigeo, Batanta), in north-western New Guinea.
aruensis Sharpe, 1879 - Aru Island.
harterti van Oort, 1909 - Southern New Guinea from R Mimika east to R Purari, and Boigu Island (in northern Torres Strait).
lauterbachi Reichenow, 1897 - South-eastern New Guinea (on north coast east from Huon Peninsula).
lorealis De Vis, 1895 - Northern Queensland (coastal Cape York Pen. south to Cooktown). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Frill-necked Monarch (Arses lorealis).
henkei Meyer, AB, 1886 - Coastal south-eastern New Guinea (Hall Sound to Orangerie Bay).
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