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Black-faced Monarch
Monarcha melanopsis (Vieillot, 1818)
Monarchidae — Monarchs
Black-faced Monarch, Monarcha melanopsis, is a passerine in the Monarchidae that breeds in eastern Australia from north-east Queensland south to south-east Victoria. Outside the breeding season it moves to south, south-east New Guinea and nearby islands, and also to Cape York Peninsula in north-east Queensland. It is a rainforest and wet forest bird. Mature birds show a black patch on the face, and the rest of the plumage is grey with rufous underparts. The species was first described by Vieillot in 1818.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Monarchidae — Monarchs
- Breeding range
- Australasia: ne QLD (s of Cape York Pen.) to se VIC (e Australia)
- Nonbreeding range
- to sc, se New Guinea and satellites and Cape York Pen., ne QLD (ne Australia)
