CLASSIFICATION OF VERTEBRATA 38 



Eurylaemidae. India and Indo-Malayan. 



Eurylaemus, Psarisomus, Calyptomena, etc. 

 CLAM A TORES. Deep flexor tendons not connected. 

 Pittidae. Palaeotropical and Papuasian. 



Pitta, Philepitta. 



Xenicidae. New Zealand : Xenicus, Acanthidositta. 

 Tyrannidae. America : Tyrannus, Pipra. 



Cotinga, Eupicola, Chasmorhynchus, etc. 

 Formicariidae. Neotropical. 



Formicarius, Dendrocolaptes, Furnarius, etc. 

 Pteroptochidae. Neotropical. 



Conopophaga, Pteroptochus, Hylactes, etc. 

 2. Sub -order PASSEEES DIACEOMYODAE, Fuerbringer. 

 Hallux strong, with large claw. 

 SUBOSCINJES. Australia. 

 Menuridae. Menura, Atrichia. 



OSCINES. Cosmopolitan. With certainty since the Mio- 

 cene. 



The Oscines, with more than 4500 recent species, are 

 divided into about thirty families, few of which can be defined. 



Corvus, Muscicapa, Turdus, Meliphaga, Drepanis, 

 Hirundo, Fringilla, Alauda, etc. 



