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| | Monarchs |
 | | Monarchs are often characterized by broad, flattened bills with a slightly hooked tip, a subterminal maxillary notch, rictal bristles and rounded nostrils (Sibley 1996). |
 | | I adhere to the more traditional views that the Monarchs are their own family, and also retain the Magpie-larks as their own family. |
 | | It is apparent, however, that monarchs reach their highest diversity in the Australasian and adjoining regions, with many species scattered throughout the Indonesian and Philippine islands, including birds which such wonderful names as the Cerulean Paradise-Flycatcher Eutrichomyias rowleyi and the recently rediscovered Celestial Monarch Hypothymis coelestis. |
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