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"Oscine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me—for personal reasons quite aside from any question about its lyrical value—his rough cucurree is one of the very pleasantest of sounds. For that matter, however, there is no one of our birds—be he, in technical language, "oscine" or "non-oscine"—whose voice is not, in its own way, agreeable. Except a few uncommonly superstitious people, who does not enjoy the whip-poor-will's trisyllabic exhortation, and the yak of the night-hawk? Bob White's weather ...
— Birds in the Bush • Bradford Torrey |
Words linked to "Oscine" : Old World oriole, warbler, titlark, tree creeper, tanager, Australian magpie, mockingbird, honeysucker, nutcracker, oscine bird, suborder Passeres, honeycreeper, thrasher, wood swallow, grey catbird, Oscines, accentor, titmouse, pipit, passerine, Dumetella carolinensis, weaver, catbird, mocking thrush, swallow shrike, babbler, starling, weaver finch, bowerbird, corvine bird, American oriole, Old World flycatcher, gray catbird, true flycatcher, creeper, water ouzel, bird of paradise, swallow, passeriform bird, fairy bluebird, honey eater |
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