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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A superfamily of pseudoscinine passerine birds containing the Menuridæ and Atrichiidæ, or the Australian lyre-birds and scrub-birds, characterized by the abnormal structure of the acromyodian syrinx, and the disposition of the tensor patagii brevis as in picarian birds.

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