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Definition of Genus Picoides
1. Noun. A genus of Picidae.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Picoides
Literary usage of Genus Picoides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"In nearly every three-toed bird, all three are anterior; our single exception is
the genus Picoides (132), where the hind toe is wanting, the outer anterior ..."
2. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"... Zone in mountains from southern British Columbia to southern California, east
to eastern Oregon, western Idaho, and western Nevada. genus Picoides ..."
3. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food by Pennsylvania Ornithologist, Benjamin Harry Warren (1890)
"The large chisel-like bill, the stiff tail-leathers, which gradually taper to a
point, the two toes in front and two behind (birds of the genus Picoides ..."
4. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey, Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1902)
"genus Picoides. General Characters. — Foot with 3 toes, 2 pointing forward and
1 back ; bill broad and wide at base, straight, with beveled end, ..."
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