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Definition of Limnodromus
1. Noun. Dowitchers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae
Member holonyms: Dowitcher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limnodromus
Literary usage of Limnodromus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"Totanus noveboracensis SABINE, in Franklin's Journ. Polar Sea, 1823, 687.
limnodromus noveboracensis MAXIMILIAN, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1832, 717. ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"22.) The North American forms of the genus are: 231. limnodromus griseus gris e
us (Gmelin). 232. limnodromus griseus scolopaceus (Say). ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"... scolopaceus (Say) become limnodromus griseus griseus (Gmelin) and limnodromus
griseus scolopaceus (Say). Ridgway, Bds. N. and Mid. Amer., vm, 197, 1919. ..."
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