Definition of Subfamily Merginae

1. Noun. Mergansers and closely related diving birds.

Exact synonyms: Merginae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Anatidae, Family Anatidae
Member holonyms: Genus Mergus, Mergus, Genus Lophodytes, Lophodytes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subfamily Merginae

subfamily Corylaceae
subfamily Dorylinae
subfamily Dracaenaceae
subfamily Dracenaceae
subfamily Emberizidae
subfamily Emberizinae
subfamily Garrulinae
subfamily Gerbillinae
subfamily Hydromyinae
subfamily Loriinae
subfamily Lutrinae
subfamily Malaconotinae
subfamily Melinae
subfamily Melolonthidae
subfamily Mephitinae
subfamily Merginae (current term)
subfamily Mimosoideae
subfamily Nelumbonaceae
subfamily Numididae
subfamily Numidinae
subfamily Papilionoideae
subfamily Perdicidae
subfamily Perdicinae
subfamily Peristediinae
subfamily Petauristidae
subfamily Philadelphaceae
subfamily Potoroinae
subfamily Pythoninae
subfamily Smilacaceae
subfamily Sterninae

Literary usage of Subfamily Merginae

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 (1876)
"subfamily Merginae. Three species of Mergansers occur more or less commonly in the Eastern United States. In the water at close range they can always be ..."

2. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"When surprised on land it seeks to escape by a series of hops or leaps, using both wings and feet. MERGANSERS (subfamily Merginae). ..."

3. Birds of the Kansas City Region by Harry Harris (1919)
"subfamily Merginae. Mergansers. MERGUS AMERICANUS Cassin. Merganser. Not uncommon migrant; occasional winter resident. Mergansers arrive late from the north ..."

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