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silktail
The silktail (''Lamprolia victoriae'') is a species of bird endemic to Fiji. It is the only member of the genus ''Lamprolia''. This beautiful bird looks superficially like a diminutive bird-of-paradise but it is actually closely related to the fantails.
==Taxonomy and systematics==
The systematic position of the silktail has been a long-standing mystery. When describing the species Otto Finsch wrote "I scarcely remember a bird which has puzzled me in respect of its generic position so much as this curious little creature". It has variously been placed with the birds-of-paradise (Paradisaeidae), the Australasian robins (Petroicidae) and the fairy-wrens (Maluridae). Since 1980 it has generally been considered to be an ancient and aberrant monarch flycatcher. A 2009 molecular study placed the species as a sister to the pygmy drongo of the highlands of New Guinea, and the two of these as a sister clade to the fantails (Rhipiduridae).
The genus ''Lamprolia'' is named after the diminutive of ''lampros'' (Ancient Greek) for splendid or brilliant. Finsch named the species after Victoria, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, who was then Crown Princess of Germany. The subspecies ''L. v. kleinschmidti'' is named for Theodor Kleinschmidt, a collector from Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg, who obtained the first specimens.〔
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