Table 3.

Inferred dates of oscine divergences. (Shown are the average, minimum, and maximum values from relaxed molecular clock analysis of 100 bootstrap replicates of the complete RAG-1 and RAG-2 matrix (see §2). Numbered nodes are labelled on figure 1.)

node	description	mean	minimum	maximum
1	Picathartidae/Passerida and Petroicidae	44.5	40.7	51.9
2	Philepittidae/Psarisomus	42.0	33.3	50.1
3	Promeropids/Passeroids	38.1	33.3	43.4
4	Stenostirids/Parids	37.5	32.1	42.1
5	Promerops/Arcanator and Modulatrix	33.4	28.3	39.5
6	Alaudids/other Sylvioids	33.8	29.2	37.7
7	Sylvietta et al./other Sylvioids	32.3	27.7	37.3
8	Philepitta/Neodrepanis	31.8	22.2	39.1
9	Megalurines/other Sylvioids	31.3	27.1	37.3
10	Picathartes/Chaetops	31.2	23.2	36.9
11	Sylvietta/other Spheanoeacus clade	30.1	25.6	35.4
12	Stenostira/Culicicapa and Elminia	29.8	25.4	34.8
13	Malagasy/other Megalurines	25.2	21.4	31.7
14	‘Vangidae’ et al./Artamidae	23.1	20.5	29.8
15	Vanga/Prionops	19.7	16.8	27.0
16	Thamnornis/Phyllastrephus	19.2	14.9	24.4
17	Lanioturdus/Batis	14.3	11.0	22.9
18	Apalis/other Cisticolidae	17.2	12.5	22.2
19	Schoenicola and Bradypterus/ Megalurus and Cincloramphus	14.7	11.3	21.7
20	Namibornis/Muscicapa	7.1	3.4	12.6