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Definition of Aramus pictus
1. Noun. Wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call.
Generic synonyms: Wader, Wading Bird
Group relationships: Gruiformes, Order Gruiformes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aramus Pictus
Literary usage of Aramus pictus
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 (1876)
"... the crying bird, beautifully speckled " = aramus pictus (Bartr.) Coues = A.
giganteus auct. Elsewhere fully described. 21. ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"aramus pictus, the Clucking Hen or Limpkin of the Greater Antilles, South Florida,
and Central America, is chocolate-brown ..."
3. The Published Writings of Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1843-1882 by George Brown Goode (1883)
"(Southern portions in general, straggling northward.) Hab. whole of tropical
America. 581. aramus pictus. (Florida.) Hab. West Indies and Atlantic ..."
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