''Machaerirhynchus'' is a
genus
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of
passerine
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birds with affinities to woodswallows and butcherbirds. The two species are known as boatbills. The genus is distributed across
New Guinea
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and northern
Queensland
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.
The species are:
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Black-breasted boatbill, ''M. nigripectus'', found in
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...
*
Yellow-breasted boatbill, ''M. flaviventer'', found in northeast
Australia
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References
External links
A page on boatbills at Don Roberson's world birding website
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Bird genera