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Definition of Genus Rissa
1. Noun. A genus of Laridae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Laridae, Laridae
Member holonyms: Kittiwake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Rissa
Literary usage of Genus Rissa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"Replaces Gavia Boie, 1822 (twice preoccupied), formerly employed in the Check-List.
genus Rissa Rissa STEPHENS, Gen. Zool., XIII, i, 1825, 180. ..."
2. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"... to British Columbia, Lake Ontario, and Long Island; in Europe south to France.
genus Rissa STEPHENS. Rissa STEPHENS, General Zoology, XIII, 1826, 180. ..."
3. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"Rare winter visitant to New Brunswick and probably northern New England. genus Rissa.
STEPH. 23 (40) RISSA TRIDACTYLA. (LINN. ..."
4. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1897)
"... a little more flattened than they usually are in the last- mentioned species.
Axis, 2-15-2'4 inches; diam., 1-6$-1-j$. THE KITTIWAKE GULLS. genus Rissa. ..."
5. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"Then as the kittiwake is given as the typical species of Ihe sub-genus Rissa,—and,
as it lias been shown, by his own cha- ..."
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