Myiagra azurea = black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea)

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Myiagra azurea = black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea)

Myiagra azurea
Artist François-Nicolas Martinet (1731–1800)
Date between 1700 and 1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Buffon V p. 244 pl. 666
Old Latin name Myiagra azurea
New Latin name Hypothymis azurea
Common name Nederlands: Zwartnekmonarch
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myiagra_azurea_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16500117.tif

The black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers found in southern and south-eastern Asia from Iran and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and the Philippines. They are sexually dimorphic, with the male having a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar ("necklace"), while the female is duller with olive brown wings and lacking the black markings on the head.

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Monarchidae
Genus: Hypothymis
Species: Hypothymis azurea (Boddaert, 1783)
Synonyms
- Monarcha azurea
- Muscicapa azurea

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