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The azure-crested flycatcher or blue-crested flycatcher (''Myiagra azureocapilla'') is a species of bird in the monarch flycatcher family Monarchidae. It is endemic to Fiji, where it is found on the islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu and Taveuni. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. ==Taxonomy== The azure-crested flycatcher was first described in 1875 by ornithologist Edgar Leopold Layard, Administrator of the Government of the Colony of Fiji at the time. Its specific epithet is derived from the Latin ''azureus'' 'blue', and ''capillus'' 'of the head'. It is also commonly known as the Blue-crested Broadbill,〔 or the azure-crested flycatcher. It is a member of a group of birds termed monarch flycatchers. This group is considered either as a subfamily Monarchinae, together with the fantails as part of the drongo family Dicruridae, or as a family Monarchidae in its own right. They are not closely related to either their namesakes, the Old World flycatchers of the family Muscicapidae; early molecular research in the late 1980s and early 1990s revealed the monarchs belong to a large group of mainly Australasian birds known as the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines.〔Sibley, Charles Gald & Ahlquist, Jon Edward (1990): ''Phylogeny and classification of birds''. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.〕 More recently, the grouping has been refined somewhat as the monarchs have been classified in a 'Core corvine' group with the crows and ravens, shrikes, birds of paradise, fantails, drongos and mudnest builders. There are three subspecies of azure-crested flycatcher. The nominate race ''Myiagra azureocapilla azureocapilla'' breeds in Taveuni, ''M. a. castaneigularis'' in Vanua Levu (except the Natewa Peninsula) and ''M. a. whitneyi'' in Viti Levu. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Azure-crested flycatcher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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