"Dolichonyx oryzivorus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... twenty-six kinds, all peculiar to the group and found nowhere else, with the exception of one lark-like finch from North America (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) which ranges on that continent as far north as 54 degrees, and generally frequents marshes. The other twenty-five birds consist, firstly, of a hawk, curiously intermediate in structure between a Buzzard and the American group of carrion-feeding ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin |
