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Updated: May 8, 2025
Without speaking of their nesting habits, their relationship appears in their love of fruit, in their gait, flight, statuesque attitudes, and abrupt motions. With the numerous Dendrocolaptine groups, so widely separated and apparently unrelated, it would be difficult indeed to say which, of their most striking habits is the ancestral one.
There is in La Plata a small very common Dendrocolaptine bird Anumbius acuticaudatus much infested by an Ornithomyia, a pretty, pale insect, half the size of a house-fly, and elegantly striped with green.
Probably long before the whole of South America has been "exhausted," there will be not less than four to five hundred Dendrocolaptine species known.
I cannot help thinking that this fact of the young birds beginning to sing like the adults, while still confined in their dark cradle, is one of very considerable significance, especially when we consider the singular character of the performance; and that it might even be found to throw some light on the obscure question of the comparative antiquity of the different and widely separated Dendrocolaptine groups.
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