Spectacled Monarch
英文名：Spectacled Monarch（学名：Symposiachrus trivirgatus），是雀形目王鹟科的鸟类。14–16厘米。纤细、活跃的鹟：喙蓝灰色；上体深蓝灰色；面部/喉部具黑色三叶草形斑纹；面部下侧至胸部橙皮黄色；下体白色；尾黑色，外侧尾羽具显眼白色端斑。昆士兰北部的亚种 albiventris：上胸橙皮黄色；下体大部为白色。幼鸟：头部无黑色；喉部中央泛灰；外侧尾羽具皮白端斑。单只、成对、小群：活泼欢腾；在树叶间拍翅、悬停、闪避；勤劳地穿梭于树干、藤蔓间，较长尾羽展开如扇，白色端斑醒目。常先由叽喳叫声定位。
Spectacled Monarch
14-16 cm. Slender, active flycatcher: bill blue-grey; upperparts deep blue-grey; black cloverleaf pattern on face/throat; lower sides of face to breast orange-buff; underparts white; tail black, outer feathers prominently tipped white. Race albiventris of n. Q: upperbreast orange-buff; most of underparts white. Immature: no black on head; centre of throat greyish; outer tail feathers tipped buff-white. Singles, pairs, parties: vivacious; flutters, hovers, dodges in foliage; works industriously over trunks, vines, longish tail fanned, white tips prominent. Often first located by chatterings.
- Other name
- Spectacled Flycatcher.
- Similar Species
- Black-faced, Black-winged Monarchs.
- Voice
- scratchy chatterings; fussy, deep, jigging scoldings, somewhat like rosellas; also quiet, drawn-out 'breer, breer, breer', like Varied Triller.
- Habitat
- understorey of mountain/lowland rainforests; thickly wooded gullies; waterside vegetation including mangroves; mostly well below canopy.
- Breeding
- Oct.-Feb.
- Nest
- pretty cup of fine bark, plant fibre, leaf skeletons, green moss, spiders' web/cocoons; in fork of open shrub, low tree, hanging vine, 1-6 m high, often near water.
- Eggs
- 2; oval; pink/creamy white, minutely freckled rich-pink, red-brown, dull purple, mostly on large end.
- Range & Status
- coastal ne. and e. Aust. and coastal islands, from C. York (Q) s. to Watson R. on w. coast and to Port Stephens (NSW) on e. coast. Resident s. to Rockhampton; summer breeding migrant to se. Q-ne. NSW, from Sept.-Oct., to May. Common humid ne. Q; elsewhere uncommon in suitable habitat. Also s. PNG, Moluccas, Timor.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Symposiachrus trivirgatus gouldii 2. Symposiachrus trivirgatus albiventris
