Definitionadj. relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds
Last update: July 19, 2015
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Garrod, " Major Divisions of Passerine Birds (syrinx, &c.)," P.Z.S., 1876, pp. 506519; and " On the Conformation of the Thoracic Extremity of the Trachea in the Class A y es," P.Z.S., 18 79, pp. 357-3 80; Muller, Stimmorgane der Passerinen, Mailer's Arch. [Please select]
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Bill stout, its mandible hooked and hawk-like; feet truly Passerine; pose, in perching, erect; solitary grayish birds. [Please select]
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Passerine birds typically sing at a high rate throughout courtship and nestbuilding, but at a markedly lower rate thereafter. [Please select]
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The White-eyed Vireo was singing from a perch 30 feet high in a dead elm, when the unidentified passerine landed 10 feet distant. [Please select]
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Natal plumages and downy pteryloses of passerine birds of North America. [Please select]
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Devotion of parent passerine birds to the young typically increases with the growth of the young (Nice, 1943:245). [Please select]
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The sequence of plumages and moults of the passerine birds of New York. [Please select]
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The structure of the cloacal protuberance of the Vesper Sparrow (_Pooecetes gramineus_) and certain other passerine birds. [Please select]
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Tordoff (1954:20) points out, however, that this distinction is of limited value since in other passerine families the tenth primary may be present in some species of a genus and absent in others. [Please select]
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--This muscle is represented by the _pars caudifemoralis_ only, the _pars iliofemoralis_ being absent in passerine birds as far as is known. [Please select]
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