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Definition of Ornithologists
1. ornithologist [n] - See also: ornithologist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ornithologists
Literary usage of Ornithologists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"This club was the prime mover in organizing, in 1884, the American ornithologists'
Union (ordinarily called "AOU"), patterned after similar organizations in ..."
2. The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting by Elisha Jarrett Lewis, Arnold Burges (1884)
"ITHOUT a cursory knowledge, at least, of the technical terms employed by
ornithologists in their delineations of the feathered race, we cannot expect all ..."
3. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"heart and liver I cannot believe; yet it is said to do so in the works of many
ornithologists."—Ibis, 1865, p. 284. The adults have the entire plumage of a ..."
4. Siberia in Europe: A Visit to the Valley of the Petchora, in North-east by Henry Seebohm (1880)
"... the fact that not longer ago than towards the close of the last century the
belief in the hibernation of swallows was held by many ornithologists. ..."
5. Birds in Their Relations to Man: A Manual of Economic Ornithology for the by Clarence Moores Weed, Ned Dearborn (1903)
"... APPENDIX I. THE BIRD LAW OF THE AMERICAN ornithologists' UNION. i Act for the
Protection of ... ornithologists ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The most novel feature, and one the importance of which most ornithologists of
the present day are fully prepared to admit, is the separation of the class ..."
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