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Definition of Genus Myadestes
1. Noun. Solitaires.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Turdidae, Turdidae
Member holonyms: Solitaire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Myadestes
Literary usage of Genus Myadestes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1884)
"... contains the single genus Myadestes, from which, however, M. leucotis (Tschudi)
is removed, being transferred, as the type of a new genus ..."
2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1889)
"... the first containing the genus Myadestes, and represented by the sole species M.
townsendii, and the second the genera ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"In America the name solitaire is given to the flycatching thrushes of the genus
Myadestes, species of which occur in Jamaica, Martinique, and other West ..."
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