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Definition of Lanius excubitor
1. Noun. A common European butcherbird.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lanius Excubitor
Literary usage of Lanius excubitor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1893)
"Collett writes on Lanius excubitor and tin- vario forms of it that occur in
Norway, which he arranges und six heads. 'I he*«- r\hibit a scries of stages, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1867)
"Lanius excubitor (Penn.), The Great Grey Shrike. Of this species no less than
four specimens have been recently noticed—one having been shot near Alloa in ..."
3. New Mallophaga by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Robert E. Snodgrass (1896)
"Dr Smith brought under the notice of the Society in 1851, a specimen killed in
the neighbourhood of Dryburgh Abbey. (3.) Lanius excubitor. (Linn. ..."
4. The Entertaining Naturalist: Being Popular Descriptions, Tales, and by Loudon (Jane) (1850)
"(Lanius excubitor.) THE Great Butcher-bird, or Shrike, is about as large as a
thrush ; its bill is black, an inch long, and hooked at the end. ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"But M. Vieillot declares that this is a different species from the Lanius excubitor,
and has denominated it L. Borealis. His reason for this distinction is, ..."
6. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"Lanius excubitor. Lanius excubitor, Linn., SN, i., p. 135 (1766); Macg., Br.
B., iii., p. 492 (i8.jo); Dresser, B. Eur., iii., p. 375, pi. ..."
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