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Definition of Family Certhiidae
1. Noun. Creepers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Oscines, Passeres, Suborder Oscines, Suborder Passeres
Member holonyms: Creeper, Tree Creeper, Certhia, Genus Certhia, Genus Tichodroma, Tichodroma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Certhiidae
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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