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Definition of Genus Saxicola
1. Noun. Old World chats.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Turdidae, Turdidae
Member holonyms: Chat, Old World Chat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Saxicola
Literary usage of Genus Saxicola
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)
"The genus Saxicola contains a large number of species which are essentially birds
of deserts and waste lands, and they are most developed in the dry parts ..."
2. Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and Their Eggs by Henry Leonard Meyer (1853)
"Waste and barren districts, open downs and moors are the chief resort of most of
the birds included in the genus Saxicola. They are lively, shy, ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"... Brehm on an earlier page in the same paper, and based exclusively on Sylvia
suecica (Linn.). (Cf. Stone, Auk, XXIV, April, 19(37, 193.) genus Saxicola. ..."
4. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"RANGE.— Siberia, breeding from the Tunguska Valley eastward, and south to China
in winter; casual in western Alaska.! genus Saxicola BECHSTEIN. ..."
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