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Melampitta

''Melampitta'' is a genus of New Guinean bird containing two enigmatic species. These are birds with black plumage that live in remote rainforests. They are little studied and even their taxonomic relationships with other birds are uncertain.
==Taxonomy==
The taxonomic placement of the genus is a source of long-standing confusion. The superficial resemblance to the pittas meant that the two species were originally placed within that family. The name of the genus literally means "black pitta". As the structure of the syrinx was that of an oscine bird the genus was later moved to the Old World babblers (an infamous "taxonomic dustbin"), then to Orthonychidae (where some authorities still retain them) and then to the jewel-babblers and whipbirds (the treatment currently used by the Handbook of the Birds of the World).〔Boles, W. (2007) "Family Eupetidae (Jewel-babblers and allies) "''in'' del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). ''Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees''. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-84-96553-42-2〕 Based on the analysis of DNA-DNA hybridisation data the genus was placed with the Paradisaeidae birds of paradise by Sibley and Ahlquist,〔Sibley, . & Ahlquist, J. (1987). "The Lesser Melampitta is a Bird of Paradise" ''Emu'' 87: 66-68〕 although these conclusions are not supported by aspects of the behaviour and biology (although they are possibly related to the recently split Cnemophilidae birds of paradise).〔 More recent studies have suggested a relationship with the Corcoracidae (the white-winged chough and apostlebird of Australia). It recently been suggested that the genus be placed its own family.〔 by most authors and placed here accordingly accept that the both species are congeneric (are both in the same genus), although the two species do have a number of differences, particularly morphologically. The lesser melampitta has three subspecies whereas the greater melampitta is monotypic.

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