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Definition of Sheathbills
1. sheathbill [n] - See also: sheathbill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheathbills
Literary usage of Sheathbills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"(AN ) The systematic position of the sheathbills has been the subject of much
hesitation—almost useless since 1836, when De Blainville (Ann. Sc. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"Nothing broke the calm peacefulness ; now a flock of the beautiful sheathbills
would hover round the vessel, fanning the limpid air with their wings of ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"The following year Cope1 published his 'Synopsis of the Families of Vertebrata,'
and in his arrangement of Aves sets forth the position of the sheathbills ..."
4. From Edinburgh to the Antarctic: An Artist's Notes and Sketches During the by William Gordon Burn-Murdoch (1894)
"They did not come far enough to windward, so I had not a good chance of bringing
one down. I suppose they must have been Chionis, sheathbills ..."
5. Stories of Animal Life by Charles Frederick Holder (1899)
"In this rookery and about it lived numbers of sheathbills that were ...
The sheathbills were the scavengers of the rookery, and when an egg was broken they ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... containing the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, sheathbills, coursers, seed-snipes,
stone-curlews, jacanas (qq.v.) and their immediate allies, most of which ..."
7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"... as is shown by the somewhat difficult investigation Mr. Howard Saunders had
to make with reference to a statement that one of the " sheathbills " had ..."
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