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Passerine   Listen
noun
Passerine  n.  (Zool.) One of the Passeres.






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"Passerine" Quotes from Famous Books



... in light and dark blue, so common in the plains, which we call the blue-jay, does not occur in the Himalayas; nor is it a jay at all: its proper name is the Indian roller (Coracias indica). It is in no way connected with the jay tribe, being not even a passerine bird. We know this because of the arrangement of its deep plantar tendons, because its palate is desmognathous instead of aegithognathous, because—but I think I will not proceed further with these reasons; if I do, this article will ...
— Birds of the Indian Hills • Douglas Dewar



Words linked to "Passerine" :   passeriform bird, scrubbird, Passeriformes, wren, oscine bird, nonpasserine, true sparrow, sparrow, order Passeriformes, bird, broadbill, jenny wren, tyrannid, lyrebird, scrub-bird, scrub bird



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