Monarch-flycatchers (Monarchidae)

Spectacled Monarch (Monarcha trivirgatus) - HBW 11, p. 307

French: Monarque à lunettes German: Brillenmonarch Spanish: Monarca de Anteojos
Other common names: Spectacled Flycatcher/Monarch-flycatcher, White-bellied/Black-fronted Flycatcher

Taxonomy: Drymophila trivirgata Temminck, 1826, Timor.
Distinctive races diadematus and bimaculatus have been proposed as comprising a separate species. Birds of Morotai formerly separated as race morotensis, but now included within bimaculatus; birds from Gorong (off E Seram) described as race wellsi, but considered indistinguishable from nigrimentum. Nine subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

bimaculatus G. R. Gray, 1861 - Morotai, Halmahera and Bacan, in N Moluccas.
diadematus Salvadori, 1878 - Bisa I and Obi.
bernsteinii Salvadori, 1878 - Salawati I, in extreme NW New Guinea.

See all 9 subspecies

bimaculatus G. R. Gray, 1861 - Morotai, Halmahera and Bacan, in N Moluccas.
diadematus Salvadori, 1878 - Bisa I and Obi.
bernsteinii Salvadori, 1878 - Salawati I, in extreme NW New Guinea.
nigrimentum G. R. Gray, 1861 - Seram and Ambon E to Seram Laut and Watubela Is (Kasiui), in S Moluccas.
trivirgatus (Temminck, 1826) - C & E Lesser Sundas (Flores, Sumba, Lomblen, Alor, Wetar, Romang, Damar, Kisang, Jaco, Timor, Semau).
melanopterus G. R. Gray, 1858 - Louisiade Archipelago and satellite islands.
albiventris Gould, 1866 - islands in Torres Strait, and N Australia (NE Cape York Peninsula S to McIlwraith Range and R Stewart).
melanorrhous Schodde & Mason, 1999 - NE Queensland (R Annan S to Seaview Range), in NE Australia.
gouldii G. R. Gray, 1861 - breeds coasts of EC & SE Queensland and New South Wales (Shoalwater Bay S to about Sydney); non-breeding Cape York Peninsula and S New Guinea (Trans-Fly region).