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	Discover Life - Aves: Pityriaseidae - Bristlehead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Clements (1991) elevated this "tribe" to family status, thus placing the Bristlehead in the Artamidae family (with wood-swallows, currawongs, butcherbirds and others).
		More recently yet, I'm told that the Handbook of the Birds of the World project will elevate the Bristlehead to its own monotypic family, the Pityriaseidae.
		It makes good sense to me. Accepting that the Bristlehead's closest relatives are wood-swallows, peltops, and currawongs, it is widely separated geographically from any of these species and has clearly evolved into a quite different bird.
	pick5.pick.uga.edu /mp/20q?search=Pityriaseidae (1236 words)

	Hypocolius page
		Alas, there was a guard there on our final visit who prevented me from carrying my camera, but I did draw this field sketch (below right) later that day (and have washed it with a tiny bit of color in PhotoShop).
		Of all the bird families in the world, perhaps the hardest to add to one's life experience are the rockfowl in Africa [two species in the Picathartidae], the Kagu [Rhynochetidae] of New Caledonia, and these monotypic families of the Old World: Shoebill [Balaenicipididae], Ibisbill [Ibidorhynchidae], Plains-Wanderer [Pedionomidae], Bornean Bristlehead [Pityriaseidae], and the Hypocolius.
		One might argue that surely the cassowaries [Casuariidae] and scrub-birds [Atrichornithidae] of Australasia, the kiwis of New Zealand [Apterygidae], and the trumpeters [Psophiidae] and gnateaters [Conopophagidae] of the New World tropics are in the running.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/hypocolius.html (1375 words)

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