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Definition of Picumnus
1. Noun. A genus of Picidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Picidae, Picidae
Member holonyms: Piculet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picumnus
Literary usage of Picumnus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1890)
"Picumnus, Temm. Pi. Col. livr. 62 (1825) ...... Piculus, Geoffr. St.-Hil. Nouv.
Ann. du Mus. ... 10 (1803) Head and tail of a Picumnus (minutu*). Type. ..."
2. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1895)
"They are found in the Oriental region, Africa, and South America. Two genera are
Indian. Key to the Genera. Toes 4; orbital region feathered Picumnus, p. ..."
3. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1888)
"He says it is not uncommon there in the thick woods, also in the orange-groves
about the Jesuit ruins of St. Javier. 217. DENDROCOLAPTES Picumnus (Licht.). ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"Blyth (described and referred to P. nanus, Vigors, JAS XIV. 197). Inhabits ?
Subfam. Genus Picumnus, Temminck. P. innominatus, Burton, PZS 1835, p. 154. ..."
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