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Definition of Capitonidae
1. Noun. Barbets.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Order Piciformes, Piciformes
Member holonyms: Barbet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capitonidae
Literary usage of Capitonidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"A careful examination of the skin proves that the genus agrees more closely in
its feather-tracts with the Picidae, Capitonidae, and Ramphastidae than ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"Capitonidae.—-This is here taken to contain the Sub-families (1) ... (Toucans)
with the above-mentioned groups in their Capitonidae. Sub-fam. 1. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1870)
"... of the family Capitonidae, and in Ramphastos, the proximal extremities of the
clavicles are expanded and J-shaped. This character is common to the ..."
4. Colored Plate Books and Their Values: Sporting Books, Works on Natural by Francis Perego Harper, William Crothers Dulles (1913)
"Monograph of the Capitonidae or Scansorial Barbets. 73 colored plates. 4to.
Half morocco, gilt edges. Lond., 1871. (Thin No. 169.) £6. Marshall (H. and H.). ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"It covers the families, Trogonidae, Cuculidae, Capitonidae, Ramphastidae,
Galbulidae, Buc- 1 Descriptions of Proposed New Birds from Peru ..."
6. Book Auction Records by Frank Karslake (1902)
"FL) Monog. of Capitonidae, 1870-1. 116 Marshall (G FL) & Niceville (L. de)
Butterflies of India, 1882-90. ..."
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