Re: Livezey and Zusi's big bird morph analysis [...]

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> leptomosomatids

That's what the name would be if there were a *Leptosoma*. But, for reasons 
I cannot fathom, the genus is *Leptosomus*, and therefore the family is 
Leptosomidae.

> A very suspect result I do want to point out is pigeons and parrots being 
> sistergroups. An old and then popular idea, but generally discarded these 
> days. I believe we've had a thread devoted to this in the past.

Yes.