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Definition of Genus Fulica
1. Noun. Coots.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Rallidae, Rallidae
Member holonyms: Coot, American Coot, Fulica Americana, Marsh Hen, Mud Hen, Water Hen, Fulica Atra, Old World Coot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fulica
Literary usage of Genus Fulica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London (1831)
"Presented by W. Bullock, Esq. Presented by W. Bullock, Esq. Genus FULICA.—(Lin•.)
Sub-Genus FULICA.—(Briss) 1372. The skeleton of the Common Gallinule, ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"genus Fulica. Fulica LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. 4 species,
representing 4 modern genera and 2 families. ..."
3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915)
"... it would be a reasonable thing to refer the species to which it belonged to
the genus Fulica, thus removing it from the Crane-Snipe group to one where ..."
4. The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and by François Le Guat, Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1891)
"... of the genus Fulica, which formerly inhabited the Island of Mauritius", by MA
MILNE-EDWARDS.1 The species, which M. Milne-Edwards notices in his memoir, ..."
5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... does not agree with my observation; I have always found it uniformly colored,
as Wilson describes it. I found no birds of the genus Fulica in Brazil ..."
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