Lamprolia
Sign in to saveThe silktails are a group of birds endemic to Fiji. The two species (Taveuni silktail and Natewa silktail) are placed in the genus Lamprolia. They look superficially like a diminutive bird-of-paradise but are actually closely related to the fantails.
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The silktails are a group of birds endemic to Fiji. The two species (Taveuni silktail and Natewa silktail) are placed in the genus Lamprolia. They look superficially like a diminutive bird-of-paradise but are actually closely related to the fantails.
==Species== Taveuni silktail (Lamprolia victoriae) Finsch, 1874 — Taveuni ; Natewa silktail (Lamprolia klinesmithi) Ramsay, EP, 1876 — Vanua Levu.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lamprolia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.