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English: Title: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club

Identifier: bulletinofbritis9192brit Year: 1971-72 (1970s) Authors: British Ornithologists' Club Subjects: Publisher: London : British Ornithologists' Club Contributing Library: Natural History Museum Library, London Digitizing Sponsor: Natural History Museum Library, London

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Text Appearing Before Image: related to the endemic Galapagos Myiarchus magnirostris), the widespread Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia and an endemic cuckoo Coccy^us {minor) ferrugineus. As has been stressed by others who consider the Geospizinae to be of monophyletic origin, the nest of Pinaroloxias is like that of the Galapagos species, i.e. a round, domed, rather bulky nest of dried vegetation with a side entrance hole mid-way or lower down one side. The eggs of the group are white, spotted red. These nesting details also apply to Coereba, though it must be pointed out that some finches, e.g. Tiaris, also have domed nests.

Text Appearing After Image: Plate i. Skins of Coereba flaveola (A), Pinaroloxias inornata (B) and Geospktft difficilis (C) in collection of British Museum. As far as I am aware the anatomy of Pinaroloxias lias not been compared with that oiCoereba. Lucas (1894) compared Certbidea with Coereba and found them somewhat different and concluded that Coereba, Dactus and Cbloro- phanes were the nearest members of the Coerebidae to the Mniotiltidae, and that Certhidea belonged to the Mniotiltidae. The taxonomic position of Coereba is obscure. Beecher (1951) and Lowery & Monroe (1968) have dis- membered the Coerebidae, and for convenience, the latter appended Coereba to the Parulidae, remarking that it might belong to a monotypic family, 167

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