They are understood to form a distinct lineage within the passerines, but authorities differ on their assignment to the oscines or suboscines ( the two suborders that between them make up the Passeriformes ).
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The birds of the Alites were the eagle, the vulture, the " avis sanqualis ", also called Picus Martius, the Feronius, and the Parrha could be considered among the oscines and the alites.
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The Oscines included ravens, crows, owls and hens, each offering either a favorable omen ( " auspicium ratum " ) or an unfavorable depending on which side of the Augur's designated area they appeared on.
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Based on molecular studies, J�nsson et al . ( 2007 ) argues that this is closer to the correct position for this species; the rail-babbler is most closely related to the rockjumpers, another early branch of the oscine passerines.
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The "'plain-brown woodcreeper "'( " Dendrocincla fuliginosa " ), is a sub-oscine passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from Honduras through South America to northern Argentina, and in Trinidad and Tobago.
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The spindalises were traditionally considered aberrant tanagers of the family Thraupidae, but like the equally enigmatic bananaquit ( " Coereba flaveola " ), they are often treated as " incertae sedis " ( place uncertain ) among the nine-primaried oscines.
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With their closest relatives, the Maluridae ( Australian fairy-wrens ), Pardalotidae ( pardalotes ), and Acanthizidae ( thornbills, Australian warblers, scrubwrens, etc . ) they comprise the superfamily Meliphagoidea and originated early in the evolutionary history of the oscine passerine radiation.
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The precise details of its breeding biology are little known except for a list of known host species including tyrant flycatchers in the genus " Myiozetetes ", yellow-olive flatbill, eye-ringed flatbill, pied water tyrant and barred antshrike, all of which are sub-oscine passerines.
