See text Grallina is a genus of passerine bird native to Australia and New Guinea.

It is a member of a group of birds termed monarch flycatchers.

Long thought to be a member of the mudnest builder family Corcoracidae, the magpie-lark and torrent lark have been reclassified in the family Monarchidae (the monarch flycatchers).

The two make up a lineage that split off early from other monarchs and has no close relatives within the family.

[4] More broadly, they belong to the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines including pardalotes, fairy-wrens and honeyeaters as well as crows.