Monarch-flycatchers (Monarchidae)

Marquesas Monarch (Pomarea mendozae) - HBW 11, p. 298

French: Monarque des Marquises German: Marquesasmonarch Spanish: Monarca de las Marquesas
Other common names: Mendoza Monarch; Hivaoa Monarch (mendozae); Nukuhiva Monarch (nukuhivae); Uapou Monarch (mira)

Taxonomy: Monarcha Mendozae Hartlaub, 1854, St Christina (= Tahuata) Island, Marquesas.
Nominate race (Hiva Oa and Tahuata), nukuhivae (Nuku Hiva) and mira (Ua Pou) all extinct; last two of those may well have represented two separate species. One extant subspecies recognized.

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