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== Description == The monarchs are a diverse family of [[passerine]] birds that are generally arboreal (with the exception of the [[Grallina|magpie-larks]]). They are mostly slim birds and possess broad [[Beak|bill]]s. The bills of some species are quite large and the heavy-set bills of the [[shrikebill]]s are used to probe dead wood and leaves.<ref name = "shrikebill">{{cite journal | title = The Pacific shrikebills (''Clytorhynchus'') and the case for species status for the form ''sanctaecrucis'' | journal = Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club | year = 2006 | first = Guy | last = Duston | volume = 126 | issue = 4 | pages = 299–308 | url = http://www.melanesiangeo.org/resources/BBOC%20shrikebills%5B1%5D.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090105160047/http://www.melanesiangeo.org/resources/BBOC%20shrikebills%5B1%5D.pdf | archive-date = 2009-01-05 | url-status = usurped }}</ref> The [[plumage]] of the family ranges from sombre, such as the almost monochrome [[black monarch]], to spectacular, as displayed by the [[golden monarch]]. The tails are generally long and spectacularly so in the paradise flycatchers in the genus ''[[Terpsiphone]]''. [[Sexual dimorphism]] in plumage can be subtle, as in the [[paperbark flycatcher]], where the female is identical to the male except for a slight buff on the throat; strikingly, in the [[Chuuk monarch]], where the male is almost entirely white and the female entirely black; or non-existent, as in the [[Tahiti monarch]]. In some species, for example, the [[Malagasy paradise flycatcher]], the males have two or more colour morphs.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Ontogeny of male plumage dichromatism in Madagascar paradise flycatchers ''Terpsiphone mutata'' | journal = Journal of Avian Biology | year = 2003 | first = Raoul | last = Mulder |author2=Robert Ramiarison |author3=Rayonné E. Emahalala | volume = 33 | issue = 4 | pages = 342–348 | doi = 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2002.02888.x }}</ref>
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