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Tremblers are a New World group of passerine birds related to mockingbirds and New World catbirds. Like these, they are in the Mimidae family. There are 2-4 species in one genus, ''Cinclocerthia'': * Grey trembler (Martinique trembler), ''Cinclocerthia (gutturalis) gutturalis'' * * Saint Lucia trembler, ''Cinclocerthia (gutturalis) macrorhyncha'' * (Southern) brown trembler, ''Cinclocerthia (ruficauda) ruficauda'' * * Northern brown trembler, ''Cinclocerthia (ruficauda) tremula'' Among the living birds, they are apparently most closely related to the pearly-eyed thrasher.〔Hunt ''et al.'' (2001), Barber ''et al.'' (2004)〕 Their common name comes from their peculiar behavior: if excited, they will show a much more exaggerated version of the wing-flicking also seen in other mimids, for example the northern mockingbirds. The tremblers do not just flick their wings, but shake their entire bodies in a trembling motion. ==Footnotes== ==References== * Barber, Brian R.; Martínez-Gómez, Juan E. & Peterson, A. Townsend (2004): Systematic position of the Socorro mockingbird ''Mimodes graysoni''. ''J. Avian Biol.'' 35: 195-198. (HTML abstract) * Hunt, Jeffrey S.; Bermingham, Eldredge; & Ricklefs, Robert E. (2001): Molecular systematics and biogeography of Antillean thrashers, tremblers, and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae). ''Auk'' 118(1): 35–55. DOI:10.1642/0004-8038(2001)118()2.0.CO;2 (HTML fulltext without images ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「trembler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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