Frill-necked Monarch
Arses lorealis
Small black-and-white flycatcher found in wetter forests of northern Cape York. Completely white underparts, with black mask, tail, and wings, blue eyering, and back back with white band. Rear of head has large puffy white collar (like a space helmet). Compare Pied Monarch, which has a broad black breast band. Forages treecreeper-style, moving up and down tree trunks looking for insects in the bark. Calls include repeated nasal buzzing sounds.
识别特征
The frill-necked monarch measures around 14 cm (5.5 in) in length, and the neck feathers can become erect into a small frill; the male is predominantly black and white, and can be distinguished from the similar and more common pied monarch by its all-white breast-the latter species having a broad black breast band. The throat, nape, shoulders, and rump are white while the wings and head are black. It has an eye-ring of bare skin, and a bright blue wattle. The bill is pale blue-grey and the eyes are dark. The female is similar but has white lores and chin.
分类信息
The frill-necked monarch was first described in 1895 by English ornithologist and ex-clergyman Charles Walter De Vis, from a specimen collected by Kendall Broadbent that year. However, undescribed specimens had existed in the Macleay Museum in Sydney and the National Museum in Melbourne for twenty years beforehand. The first eggs were collected by H. G. Barnard the following year in Somerset, Cape York.<p>The frill-necked monarch is a member of a group of birds termed monarch flycatchers. This group is considered either as a subfamily Monarchinae, together with the fantails as part of the drongo family Dicruridae, or as a family Monarchidae in its own right. Molecular research in the late 1980s and early 1990s revealed the monarchs belong to a large group of mainly Australasian birds known as the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines. More recently, the grouping has been refined somewhat as the monarchs have been classified in a 'Core corvine' group with the crows and ravens, shrikes, birds of paradise, fantails, drongos and mudnest builders.<p>Alternative common names include the frilled-necked monarch and frill-necked flycatcher.<p>Some authorities consider the frill-necked monarch as a subspecies of the frilled monarch.
- 学名
- Arses lorealis
- 命名信息
- De Vis, 1895
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Monarchidae
- 属
- Arses
分布与栖息地
The range is from the top of Australia's Cape York Peninsula southwest to Weipa, and southeast as far as the Iron Range and Coen. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and tropical moist montane forests.
- 迁徙
- Resident species
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- stable
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