Chordate Zoology - Textbook - Y. V. Tsaryk - 2013

Chapter 5. SUPERCLASS TETRAPODS (TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATES) TETRAPODA, seu QUADRIPEDA.

ANAMNIOTES (ANAMNIA) AND AMNIOTES (AMNIOTA)

5.3. CLASS BIRDS AVES

5.3.3. Taxonomy and characteristics of representatives of the main orders of the class Aves

5.3.3.2. Superorder Typical, or Neognathate Birds Neognathae

5.3.3.2.25. Order Mousebirds Coliiformes

Six species of small, long-tailed African birds that scurry through thickets like mice (hence the name) in search of food—insects, seeds, and berries. A typical representative is the speckled mousebird Colius striatus (Fig. 5.45, 25).

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