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Definition of Procnias
1. Noun. Bellbirds.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Cotingidae, Family Cotingidae
Member holonyms: Bellbird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Procnias
Literary usage of Procnias
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, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1886)
"Structure of Procnias. Bright turquoise-blue ; wings and tail black, edged with
similar blue ; front ... Specimens of Procnias, except those from SE Brazil, ..."
2. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1907)
"The species are very much alike, but pr>. ably a good series of specimens would
enable one to distinguish them with certainty. Procnias ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"Now he cites three species of Procnias, as follows ... Moreover, the name Procnias
clearly alludes to the swallow-like form of Tersa (which induced Temminck ..."
4. A List of the Genera of Birds: With Their Synonyma and an Indication of the by George Robert Gray (1841)
"That such was the case, will be evident from the characters which he has assigned
to the genus Procnias, among which we find " Rostrum brevius ; nares ..."
5. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1854)
"BY PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER, MA I have seen several examples of Procnias in collections
from New Grenada, and have never doubted their being différent from the ..."
6. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... while Procnias has a wide Swallow-like gape. The metatarsi are short and stout;
the toes are large, with sharp curved claws in ..."
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