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Hypothymis

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Hypothymis is a genus of birds in the family Monarchidae.

The genus was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea) as the type species.^[1]^[2] The word Hypothymis is from the Ancient Greek hupothumis, the name of an unidentified bird mentioned by the playwright Aristophanes.^[3]

The genus contains four species:^[4]

^ Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht". Isis von Oken (in German). Col 973.
^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 472.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Monarchs". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 August 2019.

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Hypothymis is a genus of birds in the family Monarchidae.

The genus was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea) as the type species. The word Hypothymis is from the Ancient Greek hupothumis, the name of an unidentified bird mentioned by the playwright Aristophanes.

The genus contains four species:

Black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea) Pale-blue monarch (Hypothymis puella) Short-crested monarch (Hypothymis helenae) Celestial monarch (Hypothymis coelestis)