Editing Monarch flycatcher (section)

== Taxonomy ==
Some of the one hundred or more [[species]] making up the family were previously assigned to other groups, largely on the basis of general morphology or behaviour. The [[magpie-lark]], for example, was assigned to the same family as the [[white-winged chough]], since both build unusual nests from mud rather than vegetable matter. That family, Grallinidae, is now considered a [[Synonym (taxonomy)|synonym]] of Monarchidae. It was formerly considered to have four species. The [[magpie-lark]]  and the [[torrent-lark]] were moved into Monarchidae, into the genus ''[[Grallina]]'', on the basis of molecular evidence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/monarchs.html |title=Monarchs |last=Roberson |first=Don |date=9 March 2012 |website=creagrus.home.montereybay.com |access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref>  The white-winged chough and the [[apostlebird]] were assigned to the family [[Corcoracidae]].

With the new insights generated by the [[DNA-DNA hybridisation]] studies of [[Charles Sibley|Sibley]] and his co-workers toward the end of the 20th century, however, it became clear that these apparently unrelated birds were all descended from a common ancestor: the same crow-like ancestor that gave rise to the [[drongo]]s.<ref>[[Charles Sibley|Sibley, Charles Gald]] & [[Jon Edward Ahlquist|Ahlquist, Jon Edward]] (1990): ''Phylogeny and classification of birds''. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.</ref> On that basis they were previously included as a subfamily of the [[Dicruridae]], along with the [[fantail]]s,<ref name="CB94">{{cite book | title = The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories | last1 = Christidis | first1 = L. | last2 = Boles | first2 = W. E. | year = 1994 | publisher = RAOU | location = Melbourne }}</ref> although it is now treated at familial rank as Monarchidae.<ref name="CB08">{{cite book | title = Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds | last1 = Christidis | first1 = L. | last2 = Boles | first2 = W. E. | year = 2008 | publisher = CSIRO Publishing | location = Canberra | isbn = 978-0-643-06511-6 | page = 174 }}</ref>

More recently, the grouping has been refined somewhat as the original concept of Corvida has proven [[paraphyletic]]. The narrower 'Core corvine' group now comprises the crows and ravens, shrikes, birds of paradise, fantails, monarchs, drongos, and mud nest builders.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Cracraft J, Barker FK, Braun M, Harshman J, Dyke GJ, Feinstein J, Stanley S, Cibois A, Schikler P, Beresford P, García-Moreno J, Sorenson MD, Yuri T, Mindell DP |veditors=Cracraft J, Donoghue MJ | title = Assembling the tree of life | year = 2004 | publisher = Oxford Univ. Press | location = New York | isbn = 0-19-517234-5 | pages = 468–89 | chapter = Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes): toward an avian tree of life }}</ref>

The monarchs are small to medium-sized insectivorous [[passerine]]s, many of which hunt by [[hawking (birds)|flycatching]].

=== Taxonomic list ===
The monarch family has fifteen genera as follows:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=P | year=2021 | title = World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=1 August 2021 | doi=10.14344/IOC.ML.11.2 }}</ref>

'''FAMILY MONARCHIDAE'''
* Subfamily '''Terpsiphoninae'''[[File:Asian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi)- male W IMG 9283.jpg|190px|thumb|[[Indian paradise flycatcher]] male at [[Ananthagiri Hills]], in [[Rangareddy district]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]], India.]]
** Genus ''[[Hypothymis]]'' (4 species)
** Genus ''[[Trochocercus]]'' (2 species)
** Genus ''[[Terpsiphone]]'' – typical paradise flycatchers (17 species)
* Subfamily '''Monarchinae'''
** Genus ''[[Chasiempis]]'' (3 species)
** Genus ''[[Pomarea]]'' (9 species of which 3 extinct)
** Genus ''[[Mayrornis]]'' (3 species)
** Genus ''[[Buff-bellied monarch|Neolalage]]'' – buff-bellied monarch
** Genus ''[[Clytorhynchus]]'' – shrikebills (5 species)
** Genus ''[[Chuuk monarch|Metabolus]]'' – Chuuk monarch
** Genus ''[[Symposiachrus]]'' (23 species)
** Genus ''[[Monarcha]]'' (9 species)<!--hack; keep image on same line to avoid disrupting the bulleted-list -->[[File:Blackfacedmonarch.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Black-faced monarch]]]] 
** Genus ''[[Carterornis]]'' (4 species)
** Genus ''[[Arses (genus)|Arses]]'' (4 species)
** Genus ''[[Grallina]]'' – magpie-larks (2 species)
** Genus ''[[Myiagra]]'' – broad-billed flycatchers (20 species of which 1 extinct)<!-- Auk118:472 --><!--hack; keep image on same line to avoid disrupting the bulleted-list -->[[File:Broad billed flycatcher1.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Broad-billed flycatcher]]]]