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n. - a family of American oscine birds comprising the orioles, the American blackbirds.

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  • Only 75 bird species occur in the valley, with the Columbidae, Tyrannidae, Icteridae, and Fringillidae families sufficiently abundant in the upper valley to be...
  • The whole structure bears some resemblance to the nests of the hangnests (Icteridae), with the exception that the cavity is at the top.
  • Oropendula or Orioles (Icteridae) of tropical America choose high, smooth-barked trees, standing apart from others, from which to hang their pendulous nests.
  • (1946: 27) considered the Trochilidae, Tyrannidae, and Icteridae
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