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"Passeres" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... goat-suckers and procnias, and the port of those vultures whose crooked beaks are surrounded with stiff silky hairs. Suppressing, with M. Cuvier, the order of picae, we must refer this extraordinary bird to the passeres, the genera of which are connected with each other by almost imperceptible transitions. It forms a new genus, very different from the goatsucker, in the loudness of its voice, in the vast strength of its beak (containing a double tooth), and in its feet without the membranes ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt |
Words linked to "Passeres" : family Muscicapidae, Vireonidae, family Timaliidae, Passeriformes, family Ploceidae, family Paradisaeidae, Paridae, animal order, oscine, family Turdidae, Passeridae, Ploceidae, Coerebidae, Bombycillidae, family Vireonidae, family Dacninae, family Coerebidae, family Paridae, Alaudidae, family Icteridae, Certhiidae, family Prunellidae, Irenidae, Prunellidae, family Laniidae, family Corvidae, family Mimidae, family Cinclidae, Sturnidae, Cinclidae, family Alaudidae, family Certhiidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Xenicidae, Icteridae, order Passeriformes, family Cracticidae, Mimidae, family Irenidae, suborder Oscines, Dacninae, Corvidae, family Artamidae, family Sittidae, Parulidae, family Parulidae |
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