10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FISSIROSTRAL»
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fissirostral in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Synopsis of the
Fissirostral Family Bucconidae (1854)
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series.
Philip Lutley Sclater, 2010
2
Canadian journal of industry, science and art
Their greater length and power of wing than any others in the tribe with the
depressed and feeble beak of the most typical species will mark their position as
the Fissirostral type of the family. If we inquire what other families of birds may be
...
3
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
The series includes some twelve living families, thus contrasting with three
families of Pinnipedia. Also Fissipedes, Futipeda. ion (fish-on), ». [<L. /Hwio(n-), a
cleaving, fissirostral (ns-iWtral),«. [<NL fts7w, pp." of flndSre. cleave : see finite, jfr
(< L ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1897
4
Key to North American birds
Fissirostral (Caprimulgida, Cypselida) or tenuirostral (Trochiliilee) Picarue. Wings
lengthened in the distal joints, shortened in the proximal, with 10 fully-developed
primaries ; making an instrument of remarkable power. Feet never zygodactyle ...
5
Magazine of Zoology and Botany
It is thus we enter the family of the Ramphastida> or toucans, the fissirostral
division of the Scansores, where, as in all perfect fissirostral types, we have great
bulk, a very large or wide mouth, and small syndactyle feet, — that is, with the
toes ...
Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston, Sir William Jardine, 1837
6
On the Natural History and Classification of Birds
In another fissirostral genus, Collaris, which includes the shortbilled rollers, there
is an evident falling off of the typical perfection; some of the primaries and
secondaries are indeed notched, yet the first quill feather is shorter than the
second ...
7
Fauna Boreali-americana, Or, The Zoology of the Northern ...
We have already intimated that the Trogons typify the only fissirostral group
which is omnivorous ; so also are the Toucans and the Motmots (Prionites) : the
affinity between the two latter every writer since the days of Linnaeus has
perceived ...
Sir John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby, 1831
8
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, ...
They have, moreover, none of the Fissirostral habits, nor any modification of them
, as they do not capture insects on the wing, those which we have found in their
stomachs being alwa s ants and small Coleoptera, picked off the bark and leaves
...
9
The Natural History of Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles, Or ...
Of all the Cartilagines, they have the broadest snouts, just as the fissirostral or
natatorial types, among birds, have the broadest bills ; whilethe peculiar form of
their body, which may be said to be surrounded with two immense fins, must give
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10
Zoological Illustrations, Or Original Figures and ...
L. E. I. L. U. S. Surinamensis. Surinam. Emerald. Butterfly,. Family, Papilionidse.
Sub-fam. Papilionae. Genus, Leilus. Sw ( Fissirostral or Hesperian type) Sub-
genus. Le.lus proper. Sw. Synopsis of the Sub-genera. j. Typical. Antennae
filiform ...
