Definition of Genus Sitta

1. Noun. Type genus of the Sittidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sitta

genus Silvia
genus Silybum
genus Simarouba
genus Simulium
genus Sinanthropus
genus Sinapis
genus Sinningia
genus Sinornis
genus Siren
genus Sison
genus Sistrurus
genus Sisymbrium
genus Sisyrinchium
genus Sitophylus
genus Sitotroga
genus Sitta (current term)
genus Sium
genus Sivapithecus
genus Sloanea
genus Smilax
genus Smiledon
genus Smyrnium
genus Sobralia
genus Solandra
genus Solanopteris
genus Solanum
genus Solea
genus Soleirolia
genus Solenopsis
genus Solenostemon

Literary usage of Genus Sitta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... they are plentifully represented in the Himalayas, while in the mountains of Burma the largest known species of the genus, Sitta magna, is found. ..."

2. Birds of the Colorado Valley ...: Scientific and Popular Information by Elliott Coues (1878)
"The genus Sitta, to which, as the leading representative of the family, the foregoing remarks apply more particularly, now comprises about fourteen species ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"E. genus Sitta. Sitta LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, 115. Monotypic, with Sitta europaea Linn, ..."

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