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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]
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 .
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 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
Black-naped monarch. Hypothymis azurea: Hypothymis azurea ceylonensis: Least concern Indian paradise flycatcher. Terpsiphone paradisi • Ceylon paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone paradisi ceylonensis • Indian paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone paradisi paradisi • Himalayan paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone paradisi leucogaster. Resident, Migrant ...
The black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers. They are sexually dimorphic : males have a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar ("necklace") while females are duller and lack the black markings.
The black monarch (Symposiachrus axillaris) is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. It is found in the New Guinea Highlands . Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest .
The genus Monarcha was introduced by naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827 with the black-faced monarch (Monarcha melanopsis) as the type species. [2] [3] The genus formerly included many more species.