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Definition of Sceloglaux
1. Noun. A genus of Strigidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Strigidae, Strigidae
Member holonyms: Laughing Jackass, Laughing Owl, Sceloglaux Albifacies
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sceloglaux
Literary usage of Sceloglaux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Genus sceloglaux, Kaup. But one species of this highly curious form is ...
sceloglaux albifacies, Kaup.—GR Gray, Cat. of Gen. and Subgen. of Birds in Brit. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1900)
"It may be worth while mentioning that sceloglaux albifacies has a skull which
... at some future time, to compare the skeleton of sceloglaux with that of ..."
3. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1899)
"The chance, therefore, of studying a living sceloglaux, in England and enabling some
... sceloglaux, which my father puts at the commencement of the ..."
4. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1893)
"The rocks were formerly a favourite haunt of the sceloglaux, and were for several
years my " happy hunting-grounds " for this and other rare species of ..."
5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... Gray, a New Zealand owl, which is there called the Laughing - Jackass.
See Jackass. 1869. J. Gould, 'Birds of Australia' [Supplement]: " sceloglaux ..."
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