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Myiagra is a genus of passerine birds in the family Monarchidae, the monarch flycatchers, native to Australasia, sometimes referred to as the broad-billed flycatchers or simply broadbills. Taxonomy [ edit ]
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]
The short-crested monarch (Hypothymis helenae) is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae and one of the most attractive of all the monarch flycatchers. It is a brilliant ultramarine blue bird with the males having a black facial markings with an electric blue eyering and a short crest contrasted with a pearly white belly.
The term “blue zone” first appeared in a research study two decades ago in Experimental Gerontology, a scientific journal. The study examined centenarians, people who live 100 years or more ...
The alternate name Moluccan monarch should not be confused with the species of the same name, Symposiachrus bimaculatus. Additional alternate names for the pale-blue monarch include Pacific monarch (a name shared with the buff-bellied monarch), Pacific small monarch and small monarch. Pale-blue monarch (Hypothymis puella) from Tangkoko, Sulawesi
The genus was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea) as the type species. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The word Hypothymis is from the Ancient Greek hupothumis , the name of an unidentified bird mentioned by the playwright Aristophanes .
The Vella Lavella monarch was formally described in 1908 by the German orthithologist Ernst Hartert based on a specimen collected on the island of Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands archipelago. He coined the trinomial name Monarcha brodiei nigrotectus , where Monarcha brodiei Ramsay, EP , 1879 is a junior synonym of Monarcha barbatus ...
Bodywork received the first clear-coat paint on a regular production car.” [13] The Versailles shared its powertrain with the Monarch upon which it was based, with a V8 engine as a sole choice. Initially, the Versailles was powered by the 351 cubic-inch V8, phased out in favor of the 302 cubic-inch V8.