Definition of Genus Saxicola

1. Noun. Old World chats.

Exact synonyms: Saxicola
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Turdidae, Turdidae
Member holonyms: Chat, Old World Chat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Saxicola

genus Sardina
genus Sardinia
genus Sardinops
genus Sarracenia
genus Satureia
genus Satureja
genus Saturnia
genus Sauromalus
genus Saurosuchus
genus Saururus
genus Saussurea
genus Saxe-gothea
genus Saxegothea
genus Saxicola (current term)
genus Saxifraga
genus Sayornis
genus Scabiosa
genus Scaphiopus
genus Scaphosepalum
genus Scarabaeus
genus Scardinius
genus Scartella
genus Sceliphron
genus Sceloglaux
genus Sceloporus
genus Schaffneria
genus Schefflera
genus Schinus

Literary usage of Genus Saxicola

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

1. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1890)
"The genus Saxicola contains a large number of species which are essentially birds of deserts and waste lands, and they are most developed in the dry parts ..."

2. Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and Their Eggs by Henry Leonard Meyer (1853)
"Waste and barren districts, open downs and moors are the chief resort of most of the birds included in the genus Saxicola. They are lively, shy, ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"... Brehm on an earlier page in the same paper, and based exclusively on Sylvia suecica (Linn.). (Cf. Stone, Auk, XXIV, April, 19(37, 193.) genus Saxicola. ..."

4. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"RANGE.— Siberia, breeding from the Tunguska Valley eastward, and south to China in winter; casual in western Alaska.! genus Saxicola BECHSTEIN. ..."

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