On the classification of the Old World flycatchers
On the classification of the Old World flycatchers
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旧大陆鹟的分类
作者：
G. M. Storr
旧大陆鹟传统上由十种原色鹟（twng-birds）组成，它们适合在短途飞行中从栖息处捕获空中的昆虫。通常，喙短而平，张开大嘴并有刚毛，翅膀中等长度，并且：脚和腿相当小且弱。大多数工人将它们视为一个完整的家庭，即 luscicapidae。最近的一些工作：因为！由于很难将鹟与其他十种主要的食肉动物区分开来，因此将鹟与莺、画眉、鹪鹩、鹛等合并为一个大科。
The Old World flycatchers traditionally comprise those ten-primaried Oscines (twng-birds) that are adapted to capturing insects in the air during short flights from a perch.-Typically the bill is short and fiat, the gape wide and fringed with bristles, the wings are moderately long, and the: feet and legs rather small and weak. Most workers have treatEd them as a full family, the~ luscicapidae. Some recent work-en:, becau! le of difficulty in delimiting them from other ten· primaricd imcctivorel', combine the flycatchers with the warblers, thrushes, wrens, babblers, etc., into one large family.