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PITTSBURG (KAN.) - LoveToKnow Article on PITTSBURG (KAN.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | They are now placed as a separate family Pittidae of the Clamatores division of the Anisomyodine Passeres. |
 | | There are about fifty species, divided into a number of genera, confined to the Old World, and ranging from India and North China to Australia, New Guinea and New Britain, with one species in West Africa, the greatest number being found in Borneo and Sumatra. |
 | | Placed originally among the Pittidae, but now created to form an allied family Philepittidae, is the genus Philepitta, consisting of two species peculiar to Madagascar. |
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