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Definition of Genus Heteroscelus
1. Noun. Tattlers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae
Member holonyms: Heteroscelus Incanus, Polynesian Tattler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Heteroscelus
Literary usage of Genus Heteroscelus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"... cinnamomeus SHARPE, Hand-list, i, 1899, 181.—FORBES and ROBINSON, Liverp.
Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 70. Genus HETEROSCELUS Baird. ..."
2. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"The genus Heteroscelus has the bill stout and compressed. It is represented by
the Wandering Tatler, H. brevipes, Baird, of Washington Territory, ..."
3. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"The genus Heteroscelus has the bill stout and compressed. It is represented by
the Wandering Tatler, H. brevipes, Baird, of Washington Territory, ..."
4. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"NUTT., ii, 113 ; AUD., v, 264, pi. 331; CASS. in BD., 739. RUFESCENS. 221.
Genus HETEROSCELUS Baird. Wandering Tattler, Bill straight, ..."
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