Definition of Pyrrhuloxia sinuata

1. Noun. Crested grey-and-red bird of southwest United States and Mexico.

Exact synonyms: Pyrrhuloxia
Generic synonyms: Finch
Group relationships: Genus Pyrrhuloxia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrrhuloxia Sinuata

Pyrola uniflora
Pyrolaceae
Pyrophorus
Pyrophorus noctiluca
Pyrrhic
Pyrrhic victories
Pyrrhic victory
Pyrrhocoridae
Pyrrhonian
Pyrrhonism
Pyrrhonisms
Pyrrhonist
Pyrrhonists
Pyrrhula
Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata (current term)
Pyrrhus
Pyrrophyta
Pyrrosia
Pyrrosia lingua
Pyrularia
Pyrularia pubera
Pyrus
Pyrus communis
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pythagoras
Pythagorean
Pythagorean theorem
Pythagorean triple
Pythagoreanism

Literary usage of Pyrrhuloxia sinuata

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1895)
"... from'the valley of the Lower Rio Grande south to San Luis Potosi, Puebla, etc. North casually to the coast of Louisiana. 694 a. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata ..."

2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1888)
"Pyrrhuloxia, Bp. Consp. ip 500 (1850) Head of Pyrrhuloxia sinuata. J. Gould, Esq. Type. ... Pyrrhuloxia sinuata. Cardinalis sinuatus, Bp. PZS 1837, p. ..."

3. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"Pyrrhuloxia sinuata (BONAPARTE). RANGE.— Southern border of the United States south to ... Pyrrhuloxia sinuata texana RIDGWAY. Texas Pyrrhuloxia. [594a. ..."

4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"El Paso. Texas ; Lieut. JG Parke, USA (Seventeen specimens examined.) 2. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsula;. ST. LUCAS PYRRHULOXIA. SUBSP. CHAR. Similar to f. ..."

5. Bulletin by Bureau of Biological Survey, United States (1889)
"In the, spring of 1885 a male was taken at San Angelo, Tex., April 2(i. This I believe to be its most northern record. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata ..."

6. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway, Herbert Friedmann (1901)
"(Northeastern Mexico and southern Texas.) Pyrrhuloxia sinuata ... 028) PYRRHULOXIA SINUATA SINUATA Bonaparte. PYRRHULOXIA. Adult mal<. ..."

7. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"Pyrrhuloxia sinuata texana. Range.—Northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. Said to be grayer and the bill to average larger than that of the last. ..."

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