Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbuts
Literary usage of Barbuts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"... barbuts, connecting in some degree these latter with the Parrots, are exclusively
Asiatic, and abound in such districts as border upon the equator. ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"On considering the relative difference between the barbuts and the Parrots, we
should say, theoretically, that of all the five groups among the latter, ..."
3. Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa .. by William Swainson (1861)
"WESTERN AFRICA seems almost the peculiar habitation of a very singular race of
barbuts, whose bills,' of enormous thickness, are armed with tooth-like ..."
4. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1901)
"If You Think that there is reason to fear that Letters will not reach My address,
Enclose Them to Mr. James barbuts, Captain in ..."
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