Canary-flycatcher

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Canary-flycatcher

| image = Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher.jpg

| image_caption = Grey-headed canary-flycatcher (Culicicapa ceylonensis)

| taxon = Culicicapa

| authority = R. Swinhoe, 1871

| type_species = Platyrhynchus ceylonensis{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=213 |title= Longicaudidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Swainson, 1820

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

}}

The canary-flycatchers (Culicicapa) are a genus of birds in the family Stenostiridae. The genus was erected by Robert Swinhoe in 1871.{{cite journal|author1=Beresford, P.|author2=Barker, F.K.|author3=Ryan, P.G.|author4=Crowe, T.M.|year=2005|title=African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): molecular systematics of several evolutionary 'enigmas'.|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B|volume=272|issue=1565|pages=849–858|doi=10.1098/rspb.2004.2997|pmid=15888418|url=http://www.tc.umn.edu/~barke042/pdfs/Beresford.et.al05.pdf|pmc=1599865|access-date=2007-08-16|archive-date=2017-05-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506101855/http://www.tc.umn.edu/~barke042/pdfs/Beresford.et.al05.pdf|url-status=dead}} It is restricted to Southeast Asia. Canary-flycatchers have a fine-tipped bill which becomes broad and flat at the base. The sexes are indistinguishable in plumage. Young birds are neither spotted nor streaked.{{cite journal|title=A generic revision of flycatchers of the tribe Muscicapini| journal=Bulletin of the AMNH |volume=100| author=Vaurie, Charles| year=1953| page=531| hdl=2246/1030 }}{{cite journal|title=Phylogenetic relationships within Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes): A review and a new molecular phylogeny based on three nuclear intron markers|author1=Johansson, Ulf S. |author2=Fjeldsa, J |author3=Bowie, RCK |year=2008| journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution| volume=48|issue=3 | pages=858–876|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.029|url=http://www.nrm.se/download/18.7d9d550411abf68c801800015111/Johansson+et+al+Passerida+2008.pdf| pmid=18619860|bibcode=2008MolPE..48..858J }}

There are two species:

• Grey-headed canary-flycatcher, Culicicapa ceylonensis
• Citrine canary-flycatcher, Culicicapa helianthea