. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club. Graham R. Fulton & Walter E. Boles 305 Bull. 2002 122(4) Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra; Museum Victoria, Melbourne; South Australian Museum, Adelaide; Queensland Museum, Brisbane; Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston; and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. For most species, 1-3 specimens were examined. Greater numbers of Australasian robins (Petroicidae) were available because they had been borrowed for another project. In total, 795 specimens of 268 species of Passeriformes were examined. Representatives of the Picifo
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club. Graham R. Fulton & Walter E. Boles 305 Bull. 2002 122(4) Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra; Museum Victoria, Melbourne; South Australian Museum, Adelaide; Queensland Museum, Brisbane; Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston; and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. For most species, 1-3 specimens were examined. Greater numbers of Australasian robins (Petroicidae) were available because they had been borrowed for another project. In total, 795 specimens of 268 species of Passeriformes were examined. Representatives of the Piciformes and Coraciiformes were also examined as possible outgroups to determine which character state might be ancestral. Results The taxa, number of specimens examined and observed character states are given in Table 1. In representatives of three families of the Piciformes, there was a particular form of the present character state with no distinct pneumatic dorsal foramen; however, small foramina occurred along the caudal half of the dorsal sulcus. This was scored as present. In five families of the Coraciiformes, the pneumatic dorsal foramen and foramina were present in all but a single cerylid kingfisher and one of four alcedinid kingfishers. Only three families of suboscines (Suborder Tyranni) were examined, the Australian Pittidae, New Zealand Acanthisittidae and non-Australasian Tyrannidae, representing the three infraorders recognised by Sibley & Monroe (1990). Other than one individual of Pitta, all specimens of Pittidae and Tyrannidae were scored as 'present'; foramina were absent in three specimens of Acanthisittidae. In the Suborder Passeri (oscines), in most superfamilies one or both character states can be found, although these show pronounced segregation between Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly
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