¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Passerines
1. passerine [n] - See also: passerine
Literary usage of Passerines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts edited by C. John Ralph, John R. Sauer, Sam Droege (1998)
"Previous experience indicates good detectability of most shrubsteppe passerines
out to this distance. All surveys were conducted between 0600 and 1000 on ..."
2. First Steps in Scientific Knowledge: Complete in Seven Parts by Paul Bert (1887)
"Passerines.—Sparrows.—This name is given to a great number of genera of birds
... The Passerines, in fact, include most of the small birds in existence. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... as Cuvier had said, that the like occurred in the Pigeons and true Passerines.
... the Avei Passerines, divided into two Suborders :— Singing Passerines ..."
4. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"Nor, argued Geoffroy, was it true to say, as Cuvier had said, that the like
occurred in the Pigeons and the true Passerines. In their case the sternum ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"Macgillivray himself it was, apparently, who first detected the essential difference
of the organs of voice presented by some of the New>World Passerines ..."
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