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The black-naped monarch was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. [2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. [3]
Female Common Name Scientific name Distribution Black-naped monarch: Hypothymis azurea: tropical southern Asia from Iran and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and the Philippines Pale-blue monarch: Hypothymis puella: eastern Indonesia. Short-crested monarch: Hypothymis helenae: Philippines. Celestial monarch: Hypothymis coelestis: Philippines.
The female is the brighter of the sexes and initiates courtship. The male incubates the eggs and tends the young. ... Black-naped monarch, Hypothymis azurea; Amur ...
Sexual dimorphism in plumage can be subtle, as in the paperbark flycatcher, where the female is identical to the male except for a slight buff on the throat; strikingly, in the Chuuk monarch, where the male is almost entirely white and the female entirely black; or non-existent, as in the Tahiti monarch.
The female is the brighter of the sexes and initiates courtship. The male incubates the eggs and tends the young. ... Black-naped monarch, Hypothymis azurea; Indian ...
The monarch flycatchers are small to medium-sized insectivorous passerines which hunt by flycatching. Short-crested monarch, Hypothymis helenae (E) Black-naped monarch, Hypothymis azurea; Celestial monarch, Hypothymis coelestis (E) Blue paradise-flycatcher, Terpsiphone cyanescens (E) Rufous paradise-flycatcher, Terpsiphone cinnamomea
The diet of the celestial monarch consists of insects. It is often observed in mixed flocks with other birds such as blue fantails, rusty-crowned babblers, rufous paradise flycatchers, both short-crested monarchs and black-naped monarchs and other small forest birds. Barely anything is known about this species breeding behaviour.
The pale-blue monarch was originally described in the genus Myiagra and then classified as subspecies of the widespread black-naped monarch, Hypothymis azurea, until split by the IOC in 2013 to describe a new species. [1] Some other authourities have not yet adopted this species split. [2]