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    Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds
    Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds
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      Phylogeny of the Waxwings

      and Allied Birds

      BY

      M. DALE ARVEY

      University of Kansas Publications

      Museum of Natural History

      Volume 3, No. 3, pp. 473-530, 49 figures in text, 13 tables

      October 10, 1951

      University of Kansas

      LAWRENCE

      1951

      Phylogeny of the Waxwings

      and Allied Birds

      BY

      M. DALE ARVEY

      University of Kansas Publications

      Museum of Natural History

      Volume 3, No. 3, pp. 473-530, 49 figures in text, 13 tables

      October 10, 1951

      University of Kansas

      LAWRENCE

      1951

      University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

      Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Edward H. Taylor,

      A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson

      Volume 3, No. 3, pp. 473-530, 49 figures in text, 13 tables

      Published October 10, 1951

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence, Kansas

      PRINTED BY

      FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER

      TOPEKA, KANSAS

      1950

      23-1019

      Phylogeny of the Waxwings

      and Allied Birds

      by

      M. DALE ARVEY

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      A small family of passerine birds, the Bombycillidae, has been selected for analysis in the present paper. By comparative study of coloration, nesting, food habits, skeleton and soft parts, an attempt is made to determine which of the differences and similarities between species are the result of habits within relatively recent geological time, and which differences are the result of inheritance from ancient ancestral stocks, which were in the distant past morphologically different. On the basis of this information, an attempt is made to ascertain the natural relationships of these birds. Previous workers have assigned waxwings alone to the family Bombycillidae, and a question to be determined in the present study is whether or not additional kinds of birds should be included in the family.

      It has generally been assumed that the nomadic waxwings originated under boreal conditions, in their present breeding range, and that they did not undergo much adaptive radiation but remained genetically homogeneous. Also it is assumed that the species were wide ranging and thus did not become isolated geographically to the extent that, say, the Fringillidae did. The assumption that waxwings originated in the northern part of North America or Eurasia may be correct, but it is more probable that the origin was more southerly, perhaps, in northern Mexico, of North America (see p. 519.) Subsequent to the differentiation of this stock in the south, there was a northerly movement, while certain populations remained behind and underwent an evolution different from the northern group. Since the fossil record does not permit us to say when in geological time the family originated, we must rely on anatomical evidence and the distributional evidence of present-day species to estimate when the family stock had diverged from some unknown group sufficiently to merit the status of a separate family.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      It is with pleasure that I acknowledge the guidance received in this study from Professor E. Raymond Hall of the University of Kansas. I am indebted also to Dr. Herbert Friedmann of the United States National Museum for the loan of certain skins, skeletons, and alcoholic material; to Mr. Alexander Skutch, for notes on certain Central American birds; and to Dr. Henry W. Setzer, Mr. George H. Lowery, Jr., Mr. Victor E. Jones, Mr. Victor Housholder, Mr. Alvaro Wille-Trejos, and Mr. Morton F. Davis, for gifts of specimens that have been used in this work. Suggestions and critical comments from Professors Worthie H. Horr, Charles G. Sibley and Edward H. Taylor are gratefully acknowledged. I wish also to thank Mrs. Virginia Unruh for the preparation of the drawings used in this work.

      NOMENCLATURAL HISTORY

      The oldest name available for any species of the waxwings is Lanius garrulus Linnaeus (1758). Lanius garrulus and Lanius garrulus variety B carolinensis were described as conspecific. The description has been associated with the first of the two names. The latter name is a nomen nudum since it was not accompanied by a separate description. The generic name Lanius was originally applied to both shrikes and waxwings by Linnaeus. Since that name is applied to the shrikes only, the next available generic name that may be applied to the generically different waxwings must be used. This is Bombycilla, a name originally proposed by Brisson (1760) for the Cedar Waxwing. In the 12th Edition of the Systemae Naturae (1766) Gmelin proposed the generic name Ampelis for the Bohemian Waxwing, and combined it with the specific name garrulus, the Cedar Waxwing being termed variety B. Vieillot (1807) proposed the generic name Bombycilla and combined it with a new specific name, cedrorum, for the Cedar Waxwing. Vieillot has been cited as the author of Bombycilla since that time, although Brisson used Bombycilla 33

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