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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 



By Glenny 



Xolmis cinerea (Vieillot) 



Xolmis rrmrina (Lafresnaye and 



d'Orbigny) 

 Xolmis rubetra (Burmeister) 

 Pyrocephalus ruhinus dubius Gould 

 Muscivora forficata (Gmelin) 

 Tyrannus tyrannus (Linn6) (2) 

 Tyrannus vociferans Swainson 

 Tyrannus melancholicus Vieillot (2) 

 Tyrannus dominicensis (Gmelin) 



Pitangus sulphuratus derbianus (Kaup) 

 Myiarchus crinitus (Linn4) 

 Eribates magnirostris (Gould) 

 Empidonax virescens (Vieillot) 

 Empidonax traillii (Audubon) 

 Myiophobus fasciatus (P. L. S. Muller) 

 Todirostrum cinereum (Linn6) 

 Pogonotriccus ophthalmicus Taczanowski 

 Pogonotriccus venezuelanus Berlepsch 

 Pogonotriccus flaviventris (Hartert) 



Families Oxyruncidae and Phytotomidae 



No information available. 



Family Pittidae 



Type B coracoid artery; type 1 thoracic artery; ligamentum aortae 

 present; vertebrals and superficial cervicals have a short, common 

 root from the common carotid; the right common carotid sends off 

 an ascending oesophageal artery. 



Species studied 



By Garrod 



By Glenny 

 Pitta erythrogaster Temminck 



Pitta sp. 



Families Acanthisittidae and Philepittidae 



No information available. 



Family Menuridae 



No details available. 



Species studied 



By Garrod 



Menura superba Davies 



Family Atrichornithidae 

 No information available. 



No details available. 



Alauda arvensis Linn6 



Family Alaudidae 



Species studied 

 By Garrod 



I Melanocorypha calandra (Linn6) 



