10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STURNOID»
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
(Boddaert, 1783), a misprint for Manucodiata, q. v.] A genus of sturnoid passerine
birds, either included in the family Paradiseidw or placed in Sturnidce, and typical
of a subfamily Manuco- diinat (also called I'honygama by Lesson in 1828, and ...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
A genus of birds, (a) A Linnean genus of grackles, insusceptible of definition,
comprehending sturnoid passerine birds of the old world and icterine birds of the
new. (6) A Cuvie- rian genus of old-world grackles, or sturnoid passerines : same
...
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
In 1874 Wallace divided Passeres upon external characters into 4 series : (1)
turdoid, with 21 families ; (2) tanagroid, with 10 families ; (S) sturnoid, with 4
families ; (4) formicarioid, with 10 families : 45 In ali — an arrangement requiring
some ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
... var. of dcTpairaior, of lightning, < duTpatri/, lightning.] A genus of sturnoid
passerine birds of New Guinea, sometimes located in the family Sturnidce next to
ilanucodia, sometimes referred to the Paradiseidcc, having a very long gradu- ...
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The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of ...
Caerebidae Sugar-birds. 27. Mniotiltidae Wood-warblers. 28. Vireonidae
Greenlets. 29. Ampelidx Waxwings. 30. Hirundinidae Swallows. 31. Icteridae
Hangnests. 32. Tanagridac Tanagers. 33. Fringillida- Finches. C. — Sturnoid
Passeres. 34.
Alfred Russel Wallace, 1876
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
Of or pertaining to the family Sturnidte sturnoid Passeres, one of four groups or
series in which A. K. Wallace (Ibis, 1874, pp. 406-416) distributed the normal
oscine passerine birds, the others oeing the typical or turdoid, the tanagroid, and
the ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
See cuts under Buphaga, Etdaoes, Pastor, star- ling!, and Tenwmtchus.
sturniform (stir'ni-form), a. [< L. sturnus, a starling, + forma, form.] Having the form
or technical characters of the starlings : sturnoid ; of or pertaining to the
Sturniformes.
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The Beast in the Mosquito: The Correspondence of Ronald Ross ...
The Oxford Englith Dictionary 2nd Ed (Oxford: Clatendon Press, 1989): 'A name
applied to several different sturnoid passetine bitds of India and countties futther
east, belonging to the genera Aendatheres and Eurabes, esp. Eurabes (formedy
...
William F. Bynum, Caroline Overy, 1998
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... GAVELMAN HOISTMAN LEADSMAN PENWOMAN PLATEMAN RADIOMAN
SEEDSMAN SONARMAN STICKMAN TALLYMAN TREWSMAN WHEELMAN
ARILLOID ELYTROID HYDATOID MUCINOID ONISCOID SCIUROID STURNOID
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Writings on evolution, 1843-1912
Series C. Sturnoid Passeres. Wing with 10 primaries, the first of which is
rudimentary. 1. Ploceidae. 2. Stumidae. 3. Artamidae. 4. Aland id ar. The
Alaudidae form a transition from the preceding series, where they would perhaps
be as well ...
Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles H. Smith, 2004
