Identification: The male has glossy black upper parts, grey rump and a black tail tipped with white. The chin, throat and eyebrow are white and the vent is cinnamon, fainly barred.
The female has dark brown to black upper parts with a slightly paler eyebrow. The underparts are cinnamon-grey, finely barred all over with black.
 

Call/Song:  The varied triller makes a distinctive churring trill (drr-eea, drr-eea) and a refective kar-r-r-r. sound: Dave Stewart -used with permission

 
Various subspecies are distributed across northern and eastern Australia, as south as far as Richmond River (New South Wales).

Habitat:  Found in habitats extending from rainforests through to open country.

Feeding: The varied triller consumes insects, spiders, fruit and seeds. 

Breeding/Nesting: Breeds August through April. Builds a small shallow saucer-shaped nest made of fine twigs and vine bound with spiderweb. The nest is usually placed in a horizontal fork of a tree.

Movement: This bird feeds from the crown of trees down to the lower shrub layer, staying higher in the canopy in rainforest habitats.

Other Common Names:  White-browed triller, white-throated caterpillar-eater, pied triller. 

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Reader's Digest Services (1979) Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds, Surry Hills, NSW.