Sexes apparently similar. Upperparts dark brow, to balckish with brown greyish-white vermiculations, broad pale buff eyebrows and whitish to buff hindneck-collar, underparts pale greyish to whitish-buff with borad spots and bars. A juvenilie specimen has only a vague indication of the pale half-collar on hindneck. Races differ in both coloration and size.
Not Threatened.
Sexes apwhitiparently similar. Upperparts dark brow, to balckish with brown greyish-white vermiculations, broad pale buff eyebrows and whitish to buff hindneck-collar, underparts pale greyish to whitish-buff with borad spots and bars. A juvenilie specimen has only a vague indication of the pale half-collar on hindneck. Races differ in both coloration and size.
VOICE: deep trill or descending, hollow „churr“.
20-23 cm, 45-47 g
Taxonomy:
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Aegotheles bennettii Salvadori and D’Albertis, 1875, Hall Sound, south-east New Guinea. Regarded as conspecific with A. cristatus until the latter was discovered to occur in New Guinea within the range of present species, but the two are evidently close relatives. Race affinis has sometimes been suggested to be a race of A. cristatus, but its uniformly sooty coloration and rounded wings leave little doubt that it belongs instead with present species; nevertheless, recent studies suggest it may actually be better treated as a separate species. Five subspecies recognized. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Subspecies and Distribution:
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*affinis Salvadori, 1875 - Arfak Mts in Vogelkop Peninsula (NW New Guinea). * wiedenfeldi Laubmann, 1914 - N New Guinea from R Idenburg to Holnicote Bay. * terborghi Diamond, 1967 - Karimui Basin in E Highlands of Papua New Guinea. * bennettii Salvadori & D’Albertis, 1875 - S coast of SE New Guinea from R Koembe E to Milne Bay. * plumiferus E. P. Ramsay, 1883 - Fergusson I and Goodenough I (D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago).
Mainly lowland forest and thein edge, normally up to 1000 m eleavation, although race terborghi was collected at 1125 m.
Very little information.
No info available. Eggs are unmarked white