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| Boatbills | |
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| Yellow-breasted boatbill (Machaerirhynchus flaviventer) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Superfamily: | Malaconotoidea |
| Family: | Machaerirhynchidae |
| Genus: | Machaerirhynchus Gould, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| Machaerirhynchus flaviventer [1] Gould, 1851 | |
Machaerirhynchus is a genus of passerine birds with affinities to woodswallows and butcherbirds. The two species are known as boatbills. The genus is distributed across New Guinea and northern Queensland.
The species are:
- Black-breasted boatbill, M. nigripectus, found in New Guinea
- Yellow-breasted boatbill, M. flaviventer, found in northeast Australia
