Definition of Family Certhiidae

1. Noun. Creepers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Certhiidae

family Centrarchidae
family Centriscidae
family Centropomidae
family Cephalobidae
family Cephalotaceae
family Cephalotaxaceae
family Cerambycidae
family Ceratodontidae
family Ceratophyllaceae
family Ceratopogonidae
family Ceratopsidae
family Ceratostomataceae
family Cercidiphyllaceae
family Cercopidae
family Cercopithecidae
family Certhiidae (current term)
family Cervidae
family Cestidae
family Cetorhinidae
family Chaetodontidae
family Chalcidae
family Chalcididae
family Chamaeleonidae
family Chamaeleontidae
family Characeae
family Characidae
family Characinidae
family Charadriidae
family Chelonidae
family Cheloniidae

Literary usage of Family Certhiidae

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

1. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"Tail feathers stiff and pointed. family Certhiidae. Creepers, a*. Tail feathers not stiff and pointed. b1. Bill strongly hooked and hawk-like, notched. ..."

2. Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright (1917)
"... a crest and the other a black cap and white cheeks. They feed also about trees. family Certhiidae : Creepers. Page 75. 1 Species. This bird is slender, ..."

3. The Valley of Kashmír by Walter Roper Lawrence (1895)
"V. Family CERTHIIDAE. Creepers. 146. Certhia himalayana. The Himalayan Tree-creeper. Is common in the forests, and in spring and autumn may be seen in ..."

4. Life-histories of the Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania by Thomas George Gentry (1876)
"family Certhiidae. Creepers. This is a very small and well characterized group of a dozen species included in four or five genera, which fall into two ..."

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