The Leaden Flycatcher
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...have been classified in a 'Core corvine' group with the crows and ravens, shrikes, birds of paradise, fantails, drongos and mudnest builders.
...a shiny lead-grey in colour with a brownish tinge to the wings, a bluish black bill, black legs and dark brown iris. The male has darker grey lores, and a white breast and belly.
The nest is a deep cup made of strips of bark and dry grass, woven together with spider webs [holding] two or three white eggs tinted bluish, greyish or lavender. They have an unusual swollen oval shape.
The species is parasitised by the Brush Cuckoo. Both sexes incubate the eggs and brood the chicks.
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