Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoactzins
Literary usage of Hoactzins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"Birds with wing-claws; the hoactzins. AH Baldwin, il. St. N. 35: 268. Ja. 'OS.
Days with a mother bird. J. Brooks. Harper. 116: 389-93. F. '08. ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... tinamous, curassows, hoactzins, toucans, cotingas, or many others, although
it is rich in game birds, finches, woodpeckers, wood-warblers, and the like. ..."
3. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"In view of all of the peculiarities of the hoactzins it is difficult satisfactorily
to classify them in any order; but the rather strong resemblance of the ..."
4. The Story of the Birds by James Newton Baskett (1897)
"... grebes, hoactzins, gallinules, rails, geese, etc. Also in nests and in hoarding
of bright things by crow forms. ..."
5. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"... tinamous, curassows, hoactzins, toucans, cotingas, or many others, although
it is rich in game birds, finches, woodpeckers, wood-warblers, and the like. ..."
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