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MELIPHAGIDAE

Because the genera Epthianura and Ashbyia were included Incertae sedis at the end of the Acanthizidae in Mayr and Cottrell (1986: 461–464) and because the AMNH type list follows the ‘‘Peters Check-list’’ order, these two genera were treated in LeCroy (2008: 184–188). ‘‘A Monograph of the Meliphagidae ,’’ promised by the late F. Salomonsen (1967: 338) was never published; however, he worked extensively at AMNH while preparing the Meliphagidae section of the Check-list of Birds of the World ( Salomonsen, 1967), and the AMNH collections were available to him. Driskell and Christidis (2004), Christidis and Boles (2008: 185–191), and Gardner et al. (2010) have provided an extensive survey of recent treatments of Australian meliphagids, including recent molecular studies and phylogenetic analyses. In the recently published volume 13 of the Handbook of birds of the world the Meliphagidae were treated to subspecies level by Higgins et al. (2008: 402–485).