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Definition of Genus Thryothorus
1. Noun. Carolina wrens.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Troglodytidae, Troglodytidae
Member holonyms: Carolina Wren, Thryothorus Ludovicianus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Thryothorus
Literary usage of Genus Thryothorus
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)
"... included in it in 1808, making it the only species of his new genus Thryothorus.
In 1819 (Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. £d., XXXIV, pp. ..."
2. American Ornithology: Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Robert Jameson, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington (1831)
"... to their genus Thryothorus, which we unite to Troglodytes; or to their slender
billed section of ..."
3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1889)
"... and next before the genus Campylorhynchus ; and a number of ornithologists
are of the opinion that our genus Thryothorus is the most nearly related ..."
4. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1895)
"Oregon and California, west of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada, and Lower California.
Resident from central California southward. genus Thryothorus VIEILLOT. ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"An American wren of the genus Thryothorus, such as the Carolina wren (T.ludovicianus)
or Be wick's wren ..."
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