Monarch-flycatchers (Monarchidae)

Bougainville Monarch (Monarcha erythrostictus) - HBW 11, p. 305

French: Monarque de Bougainville German: Boungainvillemonarch Spanish: Monarca de la Bougainville

Taxonomy: Pomarea erythrosticta Sharpe, 1888, Fauro, Shortland Islands, off south Bougainville.
Forms a superspecies with M. melanopsis, M. frater, M. castaneiventris and M. richardsii. Has previously been considered conspecific with M. castaneiventris. Monotypic.

Distribution: Buka, Bougainville and Shortland Is (NW Solomons).