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Definition of Riflebirds
1. riflebird [n] - See also: riflebird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riflebirds
Literary usage of Riflebirds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"... 2000-year-old glades, along with rufous scrub-birds, satin flycatchers, paradise
riflebirds, bell miners, and more quietly below, spotted-tailed quolls, ..."
2. The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Manchester Geographical Society (1892)
"... parrot», kingfisher?, hornbills, riflebirds, several varieties of bowerbirds,
the cat bird, and probably over 25 different species of the paradise bird? ..."
3. Outlines for a Museum of Anatomy by Robert Wilson Shufeldt, United States Bureau of Education (1885)
"Some of the foreigners and birds from the tropics possess very instructive
skeletons, as selections from the trogons, riflebirds, hummers, shrikes, ..."
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