Definition of Contopus virens

1. Noun. Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Contopus Virens

Constitution of the United States
Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Union Party
Constrictor constrictor
Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
Conte Alessandro Volta
Continent
Continental Army
Continental Congress
Continental Navy
Continents
Continuity Army Council
Continuity Irish Republican Army
Contopus
Contopus sordidulus
Contopus virens (current term)
Contra
Control of Communicable Diseases in Man
Conté
Conuropsis
Conuropsis carolinensis
Convallaria majalis
Convallariaceae
Conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy
Conventionsthaler
Conventionsthalers
Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction
Converso
Convolvulaceae
Convolvulus arvensis

Literary usage of Contopus virens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Code of Nomenclature and Check-list of North American Birds Adopted by by American Ornithologists' Union (1886)
"Southern Arizona, Mexico, and Guatemala. 461. Contopus virens (LINN.). Wood Pewee. Muscicapa virens LINN. SN ed. 12, I. 1766, 327. Contopus virens CAB. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1883)
"Note on the Nest of Contopus virens.—Mr. THOMAS MEEHAN • exhibited a nest of the " Wood Pewee," Contopus virens, built on a dead branch of a black-walnut ..."

3. Nests and Eggs of North American Birds by Oliver Davie (1889)
"Contopus virens (LINN.) [320.] Wood Pewee. Hab. Eastern North America to the edge of the Great Plains, north to Canada, south in winter to Eastern Mexico ..."

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