MUSCICAPIDiE. 
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Genus MONARCHA Y. & H. 
Monarcha Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xv. p. 254, 
Feb. 17th, 1827. Type (by monotypy) : Muscipeta carinata Sw. 
—Muscicapa melanopsis V. 
Monarcha melanopsis (V.). Black-faced Flycatcher. 
Distr, —Cape York, Queensland to New South Wales. 
Monarcha [melanopsis] melanopsis (V.). (4-430.) 
Muscicapa welanopsis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. Nouv. ed. 
vol. xxi. p. 450, May 80th, 1818: Sydney, New South Wales. 
(Fig. Gould, ii. pi. 05; Math. ix. pi. 411.) 
Muscipeta carinata Swainson, Zool. Illustr. ser. 1, vol. iii. (pt. vi.) pi. 147, April 
1823: Sydney. 
Monarcha melanopsis pallida Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. iii. p. 60, April 7th, 
1916: Cape York, Queensland. (Not Ramsay, Nature, vol. xx. p. 125, 
June 5th, 1879.) 
Distr. —North Queensland to New South Wales. 
Monarcha [melanopsis] canescens * Salvad. (4-431.) 
Monarcha canescens Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. vii. p. 991 
1875=1870: Cape York, North Queensland. (Fig. Math. ix. 
pi. 411.) 
Monarcha kurandi Mathows, Austral Av. Rec. vol. ii. p. 130, Jan. 28th, 1915 : 
Cape York, North Queensland. 
Monarcha canesce7is claudia Mathows, Austral Av. Rec. vol. iii. p. 71, July 21st, 
1917 : Claudio River, North Queensland. 
Distr. —North Queensland (Cape York to Claudie River). 
Monarcha cinerascens (Teinm. et Laug.). Ashy Flycatcher. 
Distr. —Timor, Tenimber, Kisser, New Guinea, Talaut, Dammer 
and Tukang-besi, Louisiade Archipelago, and New Hanover. 
Monarcha cinerascens cinerascens (Temm. et Laug.). (4-431.) 
Drymopliila cinerascens Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois. 
pi. 430, livr. 72nd, 1827: Timor. 
Distr. —Timor. 
Monarcha cinerascens fulviventris Hartl. 
Monarcha fulviventris Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, p. 830 
Echiquier Group, North of New Guinea. 
Distr .—Echiquier Group. 
Monarcha cinerascens fuscescens Moyer. 
Monarcha fuscescens Meyer, Sitzungsher. Abb. Ges. Isis, Dresden, 
vol. i. p. 23, 1884: Jamna Island. 
Distr. —New Guinea ; Jamna Island. 
* It is not settled whether there are two closely-allied species in North 
Queensland or only one. 
