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Definition of Cotingidae
1. Noun. Cotingas; umbrella birds.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Superfamily Tyrannidae, Tyrannidae
Member holonyms: Genus Cotinga, Genus Rupicola, Rupicola, Genus Procnias, Procnias, Cephalopterus, Genus Cephalopterus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotingidae
Literary usage of Cotingidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1907)
"than the Cotingidae of Dr. Sclater. Those genera of Cotingidae ... and Attila)
which by nearly universal usage are placed in the Cotingidae really belong to ..."
2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"The superb chatterers (Cotingidae) also seem to have their head-quarters in the
forests of Brazil and Guiana, and to have thence spread 1 Messrs. ..."
3. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"... including the families Pipridae and Cotingidae, in which a characterizing
feature is the development of a femoral in place of a sciatic artery; ..."
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