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Definition of Dickcissels
1. dickcissel [n] - See also: dickcissel
Literary usage of Dickcissels
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 (1898)
"Thus he states that the Bobolinks of his région are not superior as songsters to
the Horned Larks or dickcissels, the American ..."
2. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1897)
"Old Orchard, St. Louis Co., O. Widmann, No general estimate, but a long list of
birds have decreased,—some 25%, some 50.%". dickcissels have increased. ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"I have also seen dickcissels, high in the air, traveling in compact bodies by
day, though they apparently also migrate by night. ..."
4. The Wilson Bulletin by Wilson Ornithological Club, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Wilson Ornithological Society (1904)
"... the spring and fall migration; We have always had the prairie birds, Meadowlarks,
Horned Larks, Bobolinks, dickcissels, quite a variety of-Sparrows, ..."
5. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"While in southern Texas we could almost drive alongside of a flock of dull-colored
dickcissels sitting on the roadside fence, but a flock of the northbound ..."
6. The Review of Education (1902)
"But outside of any benevolent object, the stories are delightful and the author's
intimate acquaintance with individual grosbeaks, dickcissels and other ..."
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