Plumage green, tinged with golden yellow on breast and flanks, cap lilac, bordered with yellow, lilac patch on lower breast, lower abdomen and undertail-coverts yellow to orange, scapulars and inner secondaries narrowly fringed with bright yellow, bill green, legs dark purplish red. Sexes similar but female often paler in yellow areas. Juvenile similar to adult but duller. One captive juvenile showed lilac patches on crown at fledgling but lost these by month old, presumably to abrasion. Races differ primarily in richness of crown colour and amount of rusty orange on belly.
Not Threatened.
Plumage green, tinged with golden yellow on breast and flanks, cap lilac, bordered with yellow, lilac patch on lower breast, lower abdomen and undertail-coverts yellow to orange, scapulars and inner secondaries narrowly fringed with bright yellow, bill green, legs dark purplish red. Sexes similar but female often paler in yellow areas. Juvenile similar to adult but duller. One captive juvenile showed lilac patches on crown at fledgling but lost these by month old, presumably to abrasion. Races differ primarily in richness of crown colour and amount of rusty orange on belly.
18-21 cm, 69-75 cm
Taxonomy:
- Ptilonopus [sic] coronulatus G. R. Gray, 1858, Aru Islands. Shows certain affinities with the large P. purpuratus species-group; considered to be most closely allied to P. pulchellus, and perhaps also closely related to P. monacha. Five subspecies recognized. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Subspecies and Distribution:
- * trigeminus Salvadori, 1875 - Salawati and W coast of Vogelkop (NW New Guinea). * geminus Salvadori, 1875 - Yapen I and N New Guinea from head of Geelvink Bay E to Takar. * quadrigeminus (A. B. Meyer, 1890) - N New Guinea between Humboldt Bay and Astrolabe Bay, including Manam I and Kairiru I. * huonensis (A. B. Meyer, 1892) - N coast of E New Guinea from Huon Bay to Goodenough Bay. * coronulatus G. R. Gray, 1858 - Aru Is and S coast of New Guinea from R Mimika to Milne Bay.
Inhabits rain forest, secondary forest and edge, monsoon forest and in some areas gallery forest. Generally a lowland species, but may be found as light as 1200 m I areas where P.pulcherus is absent, prefer dried areas.
Frugivorous, feed on variety of fruits, articularly figs, laurel and palms. Feeds at al levels from undestorey to upper canopy. May be singly or in group.
Nest found in Sept-Apr, indicating that most breeding occur fro late to dry season.