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Morphology of the Bony Stapes in the Menuridae and Acanthisittidae: Evidence for Oscine Affinities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Morphology of the Bony Stapes in the Menuridae and Acanthisittidae: Evidence for Oscine Affinities |
 | | The New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae, 3 living species) have also been placed with the suboscines on the basis of syringeal anatomy, but within the suborder Tyranni. |
 | | Sibley (Eton 74:684, 1974) has concluded on the basis of both anatomical and egg white protein evidence (IFAG patterns) that the lyre- bird is not suboscine, but is allied with the bowerbird-bird-of-paradise assemblage. |
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