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Definition of Genus passer
1. Noun. Type genus of the Passeridae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Passeridae, Passeridae
Member holonyms: English Sparrow, House Sparrow, Passer Domesticus, Passer Montanus, Tree Sparrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Passer
Literary usage of Genus passer
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)
"genus passer. Passer, Briss., Orn., iii., p. 71 (1760). Type, P. domesticus Linn.
In the genus Passer and the rest of the Finches to oe treated of, ..."
2. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1890)
"The eggs, three or four in number, are greenish white, densely blotched all over
with brown, and measure '74 by '55. Genus PASSER ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"Of small stature and rather slender form. Large, stout. Again, I find our
pestiferous English sparrow in the genus Passer, while the purple finch is in the ..."
4. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"(GMEL.) Purple Finch. "Eastern North America; from the Atlantic coast to the
plains; breeds from the Middle States northward." (AOU) genus passer. LINN. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and by Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (1901)
"... five times as long as the tarsus; first quill decidedly longer th an the
fourth; depth of bill at base about equal to the length of culmen. genus passer ..."
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