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Chestnut-throated Flycatcher
Myiagra castaneigularis Layard, EL, 1876
Monarchidae — Monarchs
Chestnut-throated Flycatcher, Myiagra castaneigularis, is a bird of the monarch family found in north-central and western Fiji in the south-west Pacific. It breeds on Vanua Levu in northern Fiji and on Viti Levu in western Fiji. The species was first described by E. L. Layard in 1876. It was later treated as a separate species after being split from the azure-crested flycatcher in 2016. Two subspecies are recognised, one on each of the two main islands within its range.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Monarchidae — Monarchs
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: nc and w Fiji (sw Polynesia)
