Identification: Males have dark olive upper parts, warm brown rump, upper tail dark brown. The wing quills are dark grey edged with green- yellow. The forehead, lores, face and ears are all glossy black. Eyebrow is white to yellow. Chin and belly white, throat and upper breast bright yellow.
Females are similar, but with a dusky olive-green face and a brown forehead.

Call/Song: Makes a harsh, loud chatter as well as melodious whistling notes.
    sound: Dave Stewart -used with permission

Located in two distinct areas of Queensland, the first being from Cooktown south to Mt Spec and the second being from Gympie south to Mt Dromedary (New South Wales).

Habitat:Inhabits the rainforests of usually mountainous areas.

Feeding: Feeds on insects and snails that it finds amongst the leaf litter on the forest floor.

Breeding/Nesting: Breeds from August through March. Builds a dome nest with a hooded entrance, made of rootlets, palm fibre, leaves, twigs, ferns and mosses. This nest is suspended from vines or tree branches about 10m off the ground.

Movement: Spends most its time below 1m off the forest floor (except when nesting) and is found either alone or in pairs in wet gullies or dense forests.

Other Common Names: Devil-bird, blacknest-bird.

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