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Definition of Kingfishers
1. kingfisher [n] - See also: kingfisher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kingfishers
Literary usage of Kingfishers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"ON THE OSTEOLOGY AND SYSTEMATIC- POSITION OE THE kingfishers. ... or the kingfishers,
the group which is the subject of the present contribution. ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"In my 'Revision of the Classification of the kingfishers' (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat.
Hist., XXX, 1912, p. 265) the type of Megaceryle Kaup, 1848, ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"kingfishers nest in holes, usually made by themselves in a bank, and lay white eggs.
The young are hatched naked, and the juvenal plumage i ..."
4. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1901)
"Every now and again they all leave together, take a short flight, and again return
one by one. VIII.—On the Anatomy of the kingfishers, with Special ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"feet, whose anterior toes are, for the most part, united ; nevertheless these
toes have not the same formation exactly, as in the kingfishers ; the plumage ..."
6. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"Cuckoos, kingfishers, etc. KEY TO FAMILIES. A. Toes two before and two behind,
the front toes ... kingfishers. (Only one Michigan species). Family 43. ..."
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