Monarch-flycatchers (Monarchidae)
Kolombangara Monarch (Monarcha browni) - HBW 11, p. 312
French: Monarque de Brown
German: Salomonenmonarch
Spanish: Monarca de Brown
Taxonomy: Monarcha (Piezorhynchus) browni E. P. Ramsay, 1883, New Georgia, Solomon Islands.
Some of the listed races are possibly better treated as full species. Four subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- nigrotectus E. J. O. Hartert, 1908 - Vella Lavella, in SW Solomon Is.
- ganongae Mayr, 1935 - Ranongga (SW Solomons).
- browni E. P. Ramsay, 1883 - Kolombangara, New Georgia, Vangunu and adjacent islands (SW Solomons).
- meeki Rothschild & E. J. O. Hartert, 1905 - Rendova and Tetepare, S of New Georgia (Solomons).
- Near Threatened
- No photographs available yet
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