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Definition of Polioptila
1. Noun. New World gnatcatchers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Sylviidae, Sylviidae
Member holonyms: Gnatcatcher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polioptila
Literary usage of Polioptila
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1888)
"The peculiar genus polioptila, which contains some twelve or thirteen species of
small-sized American birds, ranging from the United States to the Argentine ..."
2. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1895)
"Breeds throughout its United States range, and winters from the South Atlantic
and Gulf States southward. 751 a. polioptila caerulea obscura ..."
3. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1885)
"SEEBOHM has entirely left out the consideration of the genus polioptila from ...
267), to which, both in form and style of coloration, polioptila bears a ..."
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