Cettiidae
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 Cetti's Warbler, Cettia cetti
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Cettiidae is a newly validated family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" assemblage. It contains the typical bush-warblers (Cettia) and their relatives. Its members occur mainly in Asia and Africa, ranging into Wallacea and Europe. As common name, cettiid warblers is usually used.[1]
The species are small, stubby birds, often with long tails. Most live in scrubland and frequently hunt food by clambering through thick tangled growth. Some, like the stubtails (Urosphena) or the monarch-warblers (Erythrocercus), are much different in appearance. Altogether the Cettiidae are a quite variable group containing many aberrant birds that hitherto had been uncomfortably placed with a wide range of unrelated families. The Megaluridae which contain birds which appear very similar to many cettiids are far more uniform by contrast.[2]
Among the "warbler and babbler" superfamily Sylvioidea, the Cettiidae represent an ancient lineage. As a group, they are probably closest to the Aegithalidae, the long-tailed tits and relatives.[1]
[edit] Genera
- Pholidornis – Tit-hylia (formerly in Remizidae; tentatively placed here[3])
- Hylia – Green Hylia (tentatively placed here[3])
- Abroscopus – Abroscopus warblers (3 species)
- Erythrocercus – monarch-warblers (3 species, formerly in Monarchinae)
- Urosphena – stubtails (3 species)
- Tesia – tesias (5 species)
- Cettia – typical bush-warblers (some 15 species, polyphyletic)
- Tickellia – Broad-billed Warbler
- Phyllergates – pseudo-tailorbirds (2 species, formerly in Orthotomus)
- Mountain Tailorbird Phyllergates cucullatus
- Rufous-headed Tailorbird Phyllergates heterolaemus
Other genera, such as Eremomela, might belong here too.
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] References
- Alström, P.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Olsson, U. & Sundberg, P. (2006): Phylogeny and classification of the avian superfamily Sylvioidea. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 38(2): 381–397. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.05.015 PDF fulltext
- del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew & Sargatal, Jordi (eds.) (2006): Handbook of Birds of the World (Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 849655306X
- Sefc, K.M.; Payne, R.B. & Sorenson, M.D. (2003): Phylogenetic relationships of African sunbird-like warblers: Moho Hypergerus atriceps, Green Hylia Hylia prasina and Tit-hylia Pholidornis rushiae. Ostrich 74(1-2): 8-17. PDF fulltext
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