The black-faced monarch (Monarcha melanopsis) is a passerine songbird in the family Monarchidae found along the eastern seaboard of Australia, and also New Guinea (where most birds migrate to during the austral winter; May to August).

[3] The black-faced monarch was originally described as Muscicapa melanopsis by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818 from a specimen collected in New South Wales.

[7] English naturalist William Swainson described it in 1823 as Muscipeta carinata, or "keel-billed flycatcher",[8] unaware of Vieillot's earlier description.

[9] Australian amateur ornithologist Gregory Mathews described a paler specimen from Cape York as a distinct subspecies pallidus,[10] though this was not recognised subsequently.

[2] "Black-faced monarch" has been designated as the official common name for the species by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOC).