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Definition of Genus Falco
1. Noun. A genus of Falconidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Falconidae, Family Falconidae
Member holonyms: Falco Peregrinus, Peregrine, Peregrine Falcon, Falco Rusticolus, Gerfalcon, Gyrfalcon, Falco Tinnunculus, Kestrel, American Kestrel, Falco Sparverius, Kestrel, Sparrow Hawk, Falco Columbarius, Merlin, Pigeon Hawk, Falco Subbuteo, Hobby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Falco
Literary usage of Genus Falco
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Linnaeus comprehended the eagles, with many other groups, under his genus falco;
instruction. Every method of securing and concentrating this attention must ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"... to a genus, Falco rusli- colus Linnaeus and Falco mexicanus Schlegel become
... bring raised from a subgenus to a genus, Falco spar- and verius Linnaeus ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"Recognized as a genus (cf. BOU Committee, Lint Brit. Birds, 1915, pp. 147-148).
Includes the following North American species now in the genus Falco: ..."
4. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1818)
"Observations on some Species of the Genus FALCO O/LINN.S:US. By JAMES WILSON, Esq.
(Read 1st February 1817. JI am induced to lay the following ..."
5. An introduction to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1848)
"Genus FALCO. As they are the most typical of all the Hawks, so are the members
of the genus Falco the most universally dispersed over the face of the globe; ..."
6. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1819)
"Observations on some Species of the genus Falco of ... The genus Falco is one of
the most obscure departments of natural history ; several different names ..."
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