Passeres, a division of the Oscines or Acromyodi established for the Australian genera Menura and Atrichia, the lyre-bird and scrub-bird, on account of the abnormal construction of the syrinx. See Atrichiidæ and Menuridæ.' name='description'> abnormales - definition and meaning

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  • In ornithology, in Garrod's and Forbes's arrangement of Passeres, a division of the Oscines or Acromyodi established for the Australian genera Menura and Atrichia, the lyre-bird and scrub-bird, on account of the abnormal construction of the syrinx. See Atrichiidæ and Menuridæ.

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