Grey and white monarch with black face and white on WC. Has forehead and forecrown to face, chin and throat black, sometimes slightly glossy, UpP to UpT-C grey, white fringe on side of nape and neck. UpW-C and flight featherblack, prominent white tips on median and greater coverts, edges of T broadly pale grey, S more narrowly grey on edges, tail black, broad white tips on outer two feathers, UnP white, iris dark, bill pale grey or bluish-grey, often dark tip, legs grey. Sexes alike. Juvenil is similar to adult but duller, with grey face mask, lacks white spots on WC and has buffish to warm rufous wash on breast and flanks.
Not Threatened
Grey and white monarch with black face and white on WC. Has forehead and forecrown to face, chin and throat black, sometimes slightly glossy, UpP to UpT-C grey, white fringe on side of nape and neck. UpW-C and flight featherblack, prominent white tips on median and greater coverts, edges of T broadly pale grey, S more narrowly grey on edges, tail black, broad white tips on outer two feathers, UnP white, iris dark, bill pale grey or bluish-grey, often dark tip, legs grey. Sexes alike. Juvenil is similar to adult but duller, with grey face mask, lacks white spots on WC and has buffish to warm rufous wash on breast and flanks.
14-15 cm, 14-18 g
Taxonomy: Muscicapa guttula Garnot, 1829, Dorey (Manokwari), north-west New Guinea. May be conspecific with M. julianae. Monotypic. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Distribution:
- New Guinea and satellite islands.
Interior of lowland and submontane primary and secondary forest, also forest edges and clearings, sea-level to 850 m, locally to 1200 m.
Resident.
Food items not well known, but mostly small invertebrates and larvae. Forages alone, occasionally in pairs or in mixed-species flocks. Active but generally inconspicuous in shrubby and shaded lower and middle levels af forest trees, may venture into more open areas at dusk. Gleans prey from foliage. Fans tail when alarmed or agitated.
Season mainly Aug to late Nov, fledglings recorded also in Apr. Nest usually a deep cup of brown plant fibres and roots, animal hair and moss exterior, placed 1-3.6 m above ground in main fork. Clutch 2 eggs, nestlings fed by both parents.