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Definition of Timaliidae

1. Noun. Babblers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Timaliidae

Literary usage of Timaliidae

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1877)
"... are whole families, comprising hundreds of species, not one of which exhibits a particle of bright color. Such are the Timaliidae of the eastern and the ..."

2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... at the suggestion of Professor Newton, to include some peculiar groups of Himalayan birds whose position has usually been among the Timaliidae or the ..."

3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... are so numerous and varied, that we can here only notice the more prominent and more remarkable. The Timaliidae, represented by the babblers ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... many of which, however, migrate into tropical Africa and India in winter ; of babblers (Timaliidae) 1 genus ..."

5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1877)
"... comprising hundreds of species, not one of which exhibits a particle of bright colour. Such are the Timaliidae of the Eastern and the ..."

6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1877)
"... comprising hundreds of species, not one of which exhibits a particle of bright colour. Such are the Timaliidae of the Eastern and the ..."

7. Tropical Nature, and Other Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace (1878)
"We find, for example, such typical Malay forms as the Tupaia, some Malay genera of cuckoos and Timaliidae, some Malayan snakes and amphibia. ..."

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