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Definition of Genus icterus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Icteridae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Icteridae, Icteridae
Member holonyms: Icterus Galbula, Northern Oriole, Icterus Spurius, Orchard Oriole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Icterus
Literary usage of Genus icterus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Evolution of the Colors of North American Land Birds by Charles Augustus Keeler (1893)
"Heads of the adult males of the genus Icterus. PLATE XVIII. Color chart of the
undifferentiated plumage, female or young, of the genus Dendroica. ..."
2. American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine (1832)
"We adopt the genus Icterus, nearly as it was established by Brisson, and accepted
by Daudin and Temminck. Authors have variously estimated this genus, ..."
3. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"... southern Michigan, and northern Illinois; accidental in southern Mackenzie.
genus icterus BRISSON. Icterus BRISSON, Orn., II, 1760, 85. ..."
4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1888)
"The genus Icterus, I take it, represents the typical structural organisation of
the family to which it belongs ; and these, the true Orioles, ..."
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