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PASSERES.
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| b2. |
The hinder part of the tarsus transversely scuttelated
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Alaudidæ. |
| b1. |
Tongue tubular
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Nectariniidæ. |
| c1. |
Tongue bifid, with small brushes at tip.
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| c2. |
Plumage not metallic
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Zosteropidæ. |
| d2. |
Plumage more or less metallic
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Chalcopariidæ. |
| b. |
The edges of the mandibles finely serrated on the terminal third of their edges
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Dicæidæ. |
| B. |
(Anisomyodi.) Syringial muscles inserted either in the middle, or on the dorsal or ventral ends of the bronchial semi-rings.
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| c. |
Flexor longus hallucis and Flexor profundus digitorum not united with a vinculum
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Pittidæ. |
| d. |
Flexor longus hallucis and Flexor profundus digitorum joined near the centre with a vinculum
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Eurylæmidæ. |
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