Grallina

Taxobox
name = Grallina

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Monarchidae
genus = "Grallina"

"Grallina" is a genus composed of two species of passerine bird native to Australia and New Guinea. 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,cite book |title=The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories|author=Christidis L, Boles WE |year=1994 |publisher=RAOU|location=Melbourne |isbn=] or as a family Monarchidae in its own right.cite book |title=Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds|author=Christidis L, Boles WE |year=2008 |publisher=CSIRO Publishing |location=Canberra |isbn=9780643065116 |pages=p. 174] More broadly, they belong to the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines including pardalotes, Fairy-wrens and honeyeaters as well as crows. [Sibley, Charles Gald & Ahlquist, Jon Edward (1990): "Phylogeny and classification of birds". Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.]

It contains the following species:

* Torrent-lark ("Grallina bruijni")
* Magpie-lark ("Grallina cyanoleuca")

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