| Taveuni silktail | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Rhipiduridae |
| Genus: | Lamprolia |
| Species: | L. victoriae
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| Binomial name | |
| Lamprolia victoriae Finsch, 1874
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The Taveuni silktail (Lamprolia victoriae) is a species of bird endemic to Fiji. This beautiful bird looks superficially like a diminutive bird-of-paradise but it is actually closely related to the fantails.
Finsch named the species after Victoria, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, who was then Crown Princess of Germany.[2]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Lamprolia victoriae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103707785A94122557. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103707785A94122557.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ Finsch, Otto (1873). "On Lamprolia victoriae, a most remarkable Passerine Bird from the Feejee Islands". Proceed. Of the Zool. Society of London Pt. 3: 733–735.