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-browns and fainter purple-grey, particularly at the larger end; oval; about 19 x 14 mm. Incubation: by both sexes.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous.
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Ochre-collared Monarch (Arses insularis), Frilled Monarch (Arses telescopthalmus) and Frill-necked Monarch (Arses lorealis). Subspecies terraereginae intergrades with nominate in Mossman region, and possibly inseparable from it.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
kaupi Gould, 1851 - Coastal north-eastern Qld, from Mossman - Carbine Plateau, north-eastern Qld, south to Paluma Range.
terraereginae A. J. Campbell, 1895 - North-eastern Qld, from Big Tableland, south to Thornton Peak - Daintree River.
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