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Definition of Crossbills
1. crossbill [n] - See also: crossbill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crossbills
Literary usage of Crossbills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"I may add that although' I spend a little time in the coniferous forests of our
mountains up to timber line each year I have never seen any crossbills. ..."
2. Through the Year with Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Herbert Wendell Gleason (1917)
"crossbills AT THE LEANING HEMLOCKS APRIL 13, 1860. ... I saw at once that they
were new to me, and guessed that they were crossbills,1 which was the case, ..."
3. Short Sketches of the Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands by Charles St. John (1893)
"CHAPTER VIII crossbills: Habits of; Nest—Snowy Owl—Great-eared ... 33) gives a
charming narrative of the feeding of a party of crossbills in the woods. ..."
4. The Intellectual Observer (1866)
"THE WAXWING, THE PINE GROSBEAK, AND THE crossbills. BY "THE OLD BUSHMAN."
THESE three birds, denizens of the far north, are rarely seen in a state of nature ..."
5. Law of Real Property: Being a Complete Compendium of Real Estate Law by Emerson Etheridge Ballard, Tilghman Ethan Ballard, Arthur Walker Blakemore (1902)
"Counterclaims and crossbills. Where a cause in which a plaintiff was given a
judgment establishing a resulting trust in land In his favor was remanded on ..."
6. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"... cases the nesting season is prolonged or subject to much variation, the same
as in case of the crossbills. Generally the species is a frequenter of ..."
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