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Another name that is
sometimes seen as the
scientific or
vernacular name is
Oscines, from
Latin oscen, "songbird". The P****eriformes
contains 5,000 or so species...
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three suborders,
Tyranni (suboscines), P****eri (
oscines or songbirds), and the
basal Acanthisitti.
Oscines have the best
control of
their syrinx muscles...
- Tyrannus.
These have a
different anatomy of the
syrinx musculature than the
oscines (songbirds of the
larger suborder P****eri),
hence the
common name of suboscines...
- The nine-primaried
oscines is a
group of bird
families in the
suborder P****eri (
oscines) of the P****eriformes. The
composition of the
group has changed...
- The plain-brown
woodcreeper (Dendrocincla fuliginosa), is a sub-
oscine p****erine bird in
subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the
ovenbird family Furnariidae...
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Corvidae is a
cosmopolitan family of
oscine p****erine
birds that
contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers...
- "Determining
biogeographical patterns of
dispersal and
diversification in
oscine p****erine
birds in Australia,
Southeast Asia and Africa". J. Biogeogr. 33...
- two
classes of birds:
Oscines, who gave au****es via
their singing; and Alites, who gave au****es via how they flew. The
Oscines included ravens, crows...
- Ridgely, Robert; Guy,
Tudor (1989). The
Birds of
South America:
Volume 1: The
Oscine P****erines.
University of
Texas Press. p. 14. ISBN 9780292707566. Retrieved...
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superfamily Meliphagoidea and
originated early in the
evolutionary history of the
oscine p****erine radiation.
Although honeyeaters look and
behave very much like...
