Muscicapida
Muscicapida is a clade of birds in the order Passeriformes. Oliveros, C.H. et al. suggested a gondwanan migration of this lineage from Australia to Eurasia.
Systematics
The parvorder contains the following 19 families:- Bombycilloidea
- * Dulidae: palmchat
- * Bombycillidae: waxwings
- * Ptiliogonatidae: silky flycatchers
- * Hylocitreidae: hylocitrea
- * Hypocoliidae: hypocolius
- *† Mohoidae: oos
- Muscicapoidea
- * Elachuridae: spotted elachura
- * Cinclidae: dippers
- * Muscicapidae: Old World flycatchers and chats
- * Turdidae: thrushes and allies
- * Buphagidae: oxpeckers
- * Sturnidae: starlings and rhabdornis
- * Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers
- Regulidae: goldcrests and kinglets
- Certhioidea
- * Tichodromidae: wallcreeper
- * Sittidae: nuthatches
- * Certhiidae: treecreepers
- * Polioptilidae: gnatcatchers
- * Troglodytidae: wrens