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Definition of Genus Motacilla

1. Noun. Type genus of the Motacillidae: wagtails.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Motacilla

Literary usage of Genus Motacilla

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

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"It may well be supposed that many a group, not to say family, has been formed at the expense of this genus Motacilla ; and in the course of this work the ..."

2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"The genus Motacilla, as it was left by ... The genus Motacilla thus limited, including the sub- genus ..."

3. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"No structural characters, however, can be found to divide these two sections of the genus Motacilla, and we have, therefore, included all the species under ..."

4. Natural History of Birds by Philip Henry Gosse (1849)
"The genus Motacilla, as now restricted to the Wagtails, is characterized by the beak being slender, nearly straight, slightly entering among the feathers of ..."

5. A History of British Birds by William YARRELL, Howard Saunders, Alfred Newton (1874)
"The genus Motacilla, which, as originally founded by Linnaeus, contained nearly all the " Soft-billed" birds of early English ornithologists, was restricted ..."

6. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"The birds belonging to LATHAM'S genus Motacilla, or Wagtail proper, are its typical representatives; in addition to which it contains many other forms, ..."

7. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1890)
"Genus MOTACILLA, Linn., 1766. • The genus Motacilla contains the typical Wagtails, which are found over the whole of the Old World. ..."

8. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"The genus Motacilla of Linnaeus included many of the ... The genus Motacilla, as now restricted, has a slender awl-shaped, straight bill ; the nostrils oval ..."

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