10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELIPHAGOUS»
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Fauna Boreali-americana, Or, The Zoology of the Northern ...
4670 This may doubtless be true, if tuch a character as the following is sufficient
to explain the peculiar structure of the feet of meliphagous birds, and their
adaptation to the economy of the family. Lewin's words are four, " Toes formed for
...
Sir John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby, 1831
extinction ” *. After a lapse of six years I now venture to give a more hopeful view
of the case by demonstrating that some cause favouring the native meliphagous
birds is again on the ascendant, which bids well at present to re-cstablish A.
NESTS AND EGGS OF THE HONEY-EATERS OR MELIPHAGOUS BIRDS OF
AUSTRALIA. By A. J. Campbell. [Read Saturday, January 8, 1898.) Encouraged
by the appreciation of my former articles " Eggs of the Australian Breeders of the ...
Many of these, from their external characters, might be referred at once to the
powerfully constructed groups of Corvida and Merulida. Of some of these species
we can say with confidence that they are Meliphagous, from our having
examined ...
Linnean Society of London, 1827
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Transactions of the Linnean Society of London
Many of these, from their external characters, might be referred at once to the
powerfully constructed groups of Corvida and Merulida. Of some of these species
we can say with confidence that they are Meliphagous, from our having
examined ...
Linnean Society of London, 1827
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Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western ...
I would at once refer it to that genus, but that I have some reason to think that it
belongs to the meliphagous birds, which are so abundant in New Holland, and
which have been observed to assume the appearance of almost every group in
the ...
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Transactions of the Linnean Society
... from their external characters, might be referred at once to the powerfully
constructed groups of Corvidce and Merulidce. Of some of these species we can
say with confidence that they are Meliphagous, from our having examined the
tongue.
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A Dictionary for Invertebrate Zoology:
[Gr. melas, black; eidos, like] Looking black or dark. meliphagous a. [Gr. meli,
honey; phagein, to eat] Honey- eating; melivourous. melittology n. [Gr. melitta,
honeybee; logus, discourse] The study of bees. melittophily n. [Gr. melitta,
honeybee ...
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
This colour of meliority and preeminence is a signe of enervation and weakness.
Bacon, Colours of Good and Evil Meliphaga (me-lif a-gii), n. [NL., also,
erroneously, Melliphagd; neut. pi. of "meliphagus : see meliphagous.] The typical
genus of ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
[NL., also, erroneously, Melliphagd; rieut. pi. of "mcliphagus : see meliphagous.]
The typical genus of Meli- phagidte. The term has been used with great latitude
and little discrimination for all the family and some other birds, but is now
restricted ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1890
