Editing Flamecrest (section)

==Taxonomy==
[[File:Flamecrest (Regulus goodfellowi).jpg|thumb]]
[[File:Taiwan_firecrest_01.jpg|thumb]]
The kinglets are a small group of birds sometimes included in the [[Old World warbler]]s, but frequently given family status,<ref name = BB852 >{{cite journal |last= Monroe |first= Burt L. |date=February 1992 |title= The new DNA-DNA avian classification: What's it all about? |journal= British Birds |volume=85 |issue= 2|pages=53–61 }}</ref> especially as recent research showed that, despite superficial similarities, the crests are taxonomically remote from the warblers.<ref name= Barker>{{cite journal | last= Barker | first= F Keith |author2=Barrowclough, George F |author3=Groth, Jeff G | year = 2002 | title= A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds: taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data  | journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B | volume= 269  | pages= 295&ndash;308 | doi = 10.1098/rspb.2001.1883 | pmid=11839199 | pmc=1690884 | issue=1488}}</ref><ref name= Spicer>{{cite journal | last= Spicer | first= Greg S |author2=Dunipace, Leslie | year= 2004 | title= Molecular phylogeny of songbirds (Passerifor-mes) inferred from mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences  | journal= Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume= 30 | issue= 2 | pages= 325&ndash;335 | url = http://online.sfsu.edu/~gs/spicer/pages/spicerpdf/spicerdunipace04.pdf| doi =  10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00193-3 | pmid=14715224}}</ref> The names of the family Regulidae, and the genus ''Regulus'', are derived from the [[Latin]] ''regulus'', a diminutive of ''rex'', "a king",<ref name = Chambers>{{cite book | editor-last = Brookes| editor-first = Ian | title = The Chambers Dictionary, ninth edition | year =2006 | publisher = Chambers | location = Edinburgh | pages = 223, 735, 1277 | isbn = 978-0-550-10185-3| title-link = Chambers Dictionary }}</ref> and refer to the characteristic orange or yellow crests of adult kinglets. The Taiwan Firecrest was formally described by Scottish [[ornithology|ornithologist]] [[William Robert Ogilvie-Grant|William Ogilvie-Grant]] in 1906 from the writings of English explorer and ornithologist, [[Walter Goodfellow]], who is commemorated in the binomial name.<ref name= ibis1912>{{cite journal | last= Ogilvie-Grant | first= W E |date=October 1912  | title= XXXII.—Further Notes on the Birds of the Island of Formosa   | journal= Ibis  | volume= 54 | issue = 4  | pages= 643&ndash;657 | doi = 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1912.tb05312.x|url=https://archive.org/stream/ibis961912190712brit#page/646/mode/2up }}</ref>

The flamecrest has sometimes been viewed as a race of firecrest, but its territorial song resembles those of the [[Himalayas|Himalayan]] races of goldcrest, and genetic data shows that it is closely related to that species, and only distantly to the firecrest.<ref name= flamecrest>{{cite journal | last= Päckert | first= Martin |author2=Martens, Jochen |author3=Severinghaus, Lucia Liu | year=2008 | title= The Taiwan Firecrest (''Regulus goodfellowi'') belongs to the goldcrest assemblage (''Regulus regulus'' s. l.): evidence from mitochondrial DNA and the territorial song of the Regulidae  | journal= Journal of Ornithology | volume= 150 | issue = 1 | pages= 205–220 | doi = 10.1007/s10336-008-0335-5 | s2cid= 5626256 }}</ref> The flamecrest lineage diverged from that of the goldcrest 3.0–3.1&nbsp;mya.<ref name=erfurt>{{cite book|last1=Päckert|first1=Martin|last2=Martens|first2=Jochen|last3=Sun|first3=Yue-Hua|last4=Tietze|first4=Dieter Thomas|year=2009|chapter-url=http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/tietze/pub/1056.pdf|chapter=Phylogeography and the evolutionary time-scale of passerine radiations in the Sino-Himalayan region (Aves: Passeriformes)|pages=71–80|editor1-last=Hartmann|editor1-first=Matthias|editor2-last=Weipert|editor2-first=Jörg|title=Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya/Biodiversity and natural heritage of the Himalaya III|location=Erfurt|publisher=Verein der Freunde & Förderer des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt|isbn=978-3-00-027117-5|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614015551/http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/tietze/pub/1056.pdf|archive-date=14 June 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>