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THE BIRDS
OF
NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA.
By Robert Ridgway,
Curator, Division of Birds.
Part V.
Superfamily MESOMYODI.[1]
MESOMYODIAN PASSERES.
(Continued.)[2]
- = Tracheophones Müller, Abh. k. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 1846, 1847, 383 (=Formicariidæ + Pteroptochidæ + Furnariidæ + Dendrocolaptidæ). — Newton, Dict. Birds, pt. iv, 1896, 985.
- < Tracheophones Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv für Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 209 (=Formicariidæ, part + Furnariidæ + Dendrocolaptidæ).
- < Tracheophonæ Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 146 (includes Oligomyodi!).
- = Tracheophonæ Huxley, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 471. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, pp. vi, 61. — Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 452. — Forbes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880, 391.— Sclater, Ibis, 1880, 349. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 145.
- X Tracheophonæ Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 463 (Pittidæ + Rupicolidæ, + Cotingidæ + Tyrannidæ + Pteroptochidæ + Menuridæ!).
- < Anabatidae Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv für Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 338 (=Furnariidæ + Dendrocolaptidæ).
- < Anabatidae Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1860,22. — Lilljeborg, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 16 (=Furnariidæ + Dendrocolaptidæ).
- = Formicaroideæ Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 476, in text.
- = Formicaroidei Cope, Am. Nat., xxiii, Oct., 1889, 873.
- < Formicariidae Gadow, Bronn's Thier-Reichs, Vög., ii, 1893, 276, 301 (=Formicariidæ + Furnariidæ + Dendrocolaptidæ).
- < Dendrocolaptinae Gadow, Bronn's Thier-Reichs, Vög., ii, 1893, 276 (=Dendrocolaptidæ + Furnariidæ).
- < Pteroptochidae Gadow, Bronn's Thier-Reichs, Vög., ii, 1893, 277, 301 (=Pteroptochidæ + Conopophagidæ).
The characters of the Tracheophone Mesomyodi were briefly given on pages 331 and 332, Part IV, of the present work. The group is
81255°— Bull. 50—11 1