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Definition of Genus passerina
1. Noun. A genus of small North American finches including the New World buntings.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Emberizidae, Subfamily Emberizidae, Subfamily Emberizinae
Member holonyms: Indigo Bird, Indigo Bunting, Indigo Finch, Passerina Cyanea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Passerina
Literary usage of Genus passerina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"... in his genus Passerina; but, according to my classification, it belongs to
the genus Fringilla, and to that American sub-genus lately established in my ..."
2. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"genus passerina VIEILLOT. Passerina VIEILLOT, Analyse, 1816, 30. Type, by subs.
desig., Tanagra cyanea LINNAEUS (Gray, 1840). Passerina cyanea (LINN.EUS). ..."
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