Yellow-legged Flyrobin (Kempiella griseoceps) [XC158316]
by Phil Gregory from Iron Range NP, Queensland, Australia (call)
Yellow-legged Flyrobin (Kempiella griseoceps) [XC750396]
by from Agogo Range, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (song)
Nest
Cup, small, neat, composed of fine black rootlets, bound with cobweb and decorated with strips of paperbark and lichen, placed in a tee about 10 m above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
2; pale blue speckled and blotched dark brown and grey; long-oval; about 15 x 12 mm.
Young
Probably altricial, nidicolous.
Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
griseoceps (De Vis, 1894) - Mountains of south-eastern New Guinea, Herzog Mts and lowlands of southern New Guinea.
kempi Mathews, 1913 - North-eastern Cape York Peninsula, Qld, and possibly in the Trans-Fly of south-central New Guinea.
occidentalis (Rothschild & Hartert, 1903) - New Guinea mountains (Vogelkop and east to Victor Emanuel Range, Sepik Mts and Adelbert Mts).
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