Bird
NHMUK-1880.11.18.98
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Licence:
Creative Commons CC0 1.0
Common name:
Manus Monarch
Scientific name:
Monarcha infelix
Voyage:
HMS Challenger (1872-76)
Date Collected:
4 March 1875 - 10 March 1875
Type status:
Holotype
Citations:
Zoology Part VIII: Report on the BIRDS. By P. L. Sclater, Bound in Volume 2,1881 p28.
Taxonomy
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Monarchidae
Genus:
Monarcha
Species:
Monarcha infelix P.L. Sclater, 1877
Station/Area Information
Date collected:
4 March 1875 - 10 March 1875
Area:
Admiralty Island, Papua New Guinea
Water body:
Western Central Pacific Ocean
Notes:
Adult male. 'a single specimen of this species (no. 497) was "shot on the main island; insects in stomach". unfortunately it is in a very imperfect state, the bill and greater part of the tail-feathers having been shot away.'
