Black-faced Monarch
Monarcha melanopsis
A slim songbird with rather long tail and substantial bill. Gray above, rufous below, with gray head, black forehead and throat. Juvenile lacks black in face. In all plumages, small white crescent in front of eye. Often perches horizontally, slightly raising tail. Inhabits wetter forested areas along eastern coast of Australia, where it forages slowly for insects in foliage.
识别特征
The black-faced monarch is grey, with rufous underparts and mature birds have a black patch on the face.
分类信息
The black-faced monarch was originally described as Muscicapa melanopsis by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818 from a specimen collected in New South Wales. The species is now placed in the genus Monarcha that was introduced by the naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827. The specific name is from the Ancient Greek words melas "black" and ops "face". English naturalist William Swainson described it in 1823 as Muscipeta carinata, or "keel-billed flycatcher", unaware of Vieillot's earlier description. In his 1848 work The Birds of Australia, John Gould called it Monarcha carinata "Carinated flycatcher".<p>Australian amateur ornithologist Gregory Mathews described a paler specimen from Cape York as a distinct subspecies pallidus, though this was not recognised subsequently.<p>"Black-faced monarch" has been designated as the official common name for the species by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOC). Alternate names include the "black-faced flycatcher", "carinated flycatcher", "grey-winged monarch" (particularly in New Guinea to distinguish from black-winged monarch), "grey-winged monarch flycatcher" and "pearly-winged monarch".<p>The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. Within the genus, it is most closely related to the black-winged monarch (Monarcha frater).
- 学名
- Monarcha melanopsis
- 命名信息
- (Vieillot, 1818)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Monarchidae
- 属
- Monarcha
分布与栖息地
The preferred habitat is rainforest and wet forest.
- 繁殖区
- AU : ne QLD (s of Cape York Pen.) to se VIC (e Australia)
- 非繁殖区
- to sc, se New Guinea and satellites and Cape York Pen., ne QLD (ne Australia)
- 迁徙
- Complete migrants
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- stable
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