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 LC    Frilled Monarch* Id (Atlas):
    Arses telescopthalmus

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Arses telescopthalmus [Christidis and Boles (2008)]

Other Names (World)
Frilled Monarch, Frilled Flycatcher, Frill-necked Flycatcher, White-lored Flycatcher, Frilled Monarch-flycatcher

Family
Monarchidae (Monarch-flycatchers)

Size
14 - 16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Garnot, 1827)

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

Habitat
Mainly rainforests, including deciduous vine forest, sometimes in eucalypt forests and woodlands adjoining rainforests.

Range (Guide)
Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Usually singly or in twos, occasionally in small groups.

Food
Insects.

Voice
A dry, rattle, 'zi-zi-zi-...' of 2 - 15 hard buzzing notes, increasing in volume.



Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

 
Frilled Monarch (Arses telescopthalmus) [XC279273]
     by Oscar Campbell from Vanapa River area, Central Province, Papua New Guinea (song)

 
Frilled Monarch (Arses telescopthalmus) [XC409482]
     by Ross Gallardy from Kota Waisai, Kabupaten Raja Ampat, Papua Barat, Indonesia (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).



References
See References.

The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9


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