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Definition of Genus Muscicapa
1. Noun. Type genus of the Muscicapidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Muscicapidae, Muscicapidae
Member holonyms: Muscicapa Grisola, Muscicapa Striata, Spotted Flycatcher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Muscicapa
Literary usage of Genus Muscicapa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1890)
"Genus MUSCICAPA, Brisson, 1700. In this genus the sexes are alike : the culmen
of the bill is about as long as twice the breadth of the bill at the forehead ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"... rise to great difficulties as to their scientific arrangement, no two authors
agreeing in their ideas on the subject. They form the genus muscicapa of ..."
3. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1843)
"Of the genus Muscicapa were obtained five species, four of which have been described.
The specimen procured of the fifth was a male. ..."
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