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Definition of Pittidae
1. Noun. Pittas.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Superfamily Tyrannidae, Tyrannidae
Member holonyms: Genus Pitta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pittidae
Literary usage of Pittidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"... much weight may have been given to certain anatomical characters and that even
the structure of the syrinx in the Pittidae may not necessarily indicate ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"They are now placed as a separate family Pittidae of the Clama tores division of
... Placed originally among the Pittidae, but now created to form an allied ..."
3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... the longest tailed and most elegantly marked of the Pittidae ... are also well
developed; as well as the Pittidae, ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"The young are apparently spotted, unlike those of the Pittidae, which resemble
the adults. Fam. III. ..."
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