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  AMNH Scientific Publications: Item 2246/460
Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History.
Part 6, Passeriformes : Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, and Polioptilidae.
Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, and Polioptilidae
digitallibrary.amnh.org /dspace/handle/2246/460   (195 words)

  
 History of the North American Bird Fauna, by Ernst Mayr
As J. Zimmer has pointed out to me, it may be necessary to call the subfamily "Chamaeinae," a name first used by Baird in 1863.
The name Paradoxornithidae seems to have been used first by Oates about 20 years later.
However, I have not made a thorough investigation of this nomenclatural complication.
www.wku.edu /~smithch/biogeog/MAYR946B.htm   (13542 words)

  
 A PHYLOGENY OF THE OSCINES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
--Delacour's (1946) proposal that the Wren-fit (Chamaea) is close to the parrot-bills is supported by internal characters, but I prefer to recognize the Paradoxornithidae as a family rather than reduce the group to a tribe (Chamaeini) of the Timaliidae.
It may be practicable to recognize two subfamilies--the Paradoxornithinae for the parrot- bills and wren-fit and the Aegithalinae for the Bush Tit (Psaltriparus) and the Penduline Tit (Aegithalos).
In the wrens and creepers with their slender bills this muscle seems to be just at the point of entirely losing its pinnate character, as has occurred in slender-billed species of
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v070n03/p0270-p0333.html   (19439 words)

  
 Bird Species List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pittidae Climacteridae Artamidae Campephagidae Corvidae Dicruridae Monarchidae Pachycephalidae Oriolidae Rhidipuridae Vangidae Maluridae Meliphagidae Pardalotidae Orthonycidae Certhidae Sturnidae Troglodytidae Fringillidae Motacillidae Passeridae Prunellidae Turdidae Petroicidae Ptilonorhynchidae Pycnonotidae Hirudinidae Silviidae Paradoxornithidae Paridae
Passerine birds follow Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology for groups which occur on that site.
The passerine families Hirudinidae, Pycnonotidae, Paradoxornithidae, Paridae and Silviidae, which are missing from this source, have been arbitrarily placed following the other families.
animaldetective.com /Birds.html   (173 words)

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