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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In Sundevall's classification of birds, the sixth phalanx of the cohort Cichlomorphæ, including 8 families of dentirostral oscine Passeres, such as the waxwings, orioles, swallow-flycatchers, caterpillar-catchers, and drongo-shrikes.

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