Chrysococcyx meyeri
Adult glossy green above, crown green, ear- coverts white, female with chestnut forecrown; white below with prominent glossy green barring, undertail black with white bars on inner webs of outer feathers; large rufous patch on flight- feathers; eye- ring red in male to grey in female, iris pale brown to grey- brown, darker on inner rim, bill black, feet blue- grey. Juvenile grey- brown above, head grey, tail rufous- grey with dark grey near tip, grey below, iris brown, feet light brown. Voice: Song 5- 8 high- pitched clear notes, “peer peer peer ...”, dropping slightly in pitch, final note preceded by a pause; also a complex song of 4 pairs of downslurred notes, the pairs rising and falling.
Not Threatened.
Adult glossy green above, crown green, ear- coverts white, female with chestnut forecrown; white below with prominent glossy green barring, undertail black with white bars on inner webs of outer feathers; large rufous patch on flight- feathers; eye- ring red in male to grey in female, iris pale brown to grey- brown, darker on inner rim, bill black, feet blue- grey. Juvenile grey- brown above, head grey, tail rufous- grey with dark grey near tip, grey below, iris brown, feet light brown. Voice: Song 5- 8 high- pitched clear notes, “peer peer peer ...”, dropping slightly in pitch, final note preceded by a pause; also a complex song of 4 pairs of downslurred notes, the pairs rising and falling.
15 cm; 20 g
Taxonomy:
- Chrysococcyx meyeri Salvadori, 1874, Hatam, Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. Asian and Australasian forms of Chrysococcyx sometimes placed in genus Chalcites. Monotypic. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Distribution:
- Mountains of New Guinea and Batanta I.
Inhabits forests, including forest edge, also garden shade trees, mainly in lower montane habitats at 500- 1800 m.
Insects, caterpillars in canopy leaves. A regular member in mixed- species foraging flocks.
No information available. Presumably brood- parasitic.