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Definition of Genus alectura
1. Noun. Brush turkeys.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae
Member holonyms: Alectura Lathami, Brush Turkey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alectura
Literary usage of Genus alectura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"New Holland Vulture, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ip 32. genus alectura, Lath. Ibid., vol.
xp 455. Alectura lathami, Gray, Zool. Misc., No. I. p. 3. ..."
2. The Zoological Miscellany by John Edward Gray (1831)
"The genus Alectura differs from all the others in this family, by the tarsi being
reticulated. scribed genera, discovered by JOHN REEVES, Esq., in China. ..."
3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"It is also proper to add, before proceeding farther, as confirmatory of a position
advanced in the preceding paragraph but one, that the genus Alectura, ..."
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