Definition of Genus muscicapa

1. Noun. Type genus of the Muscicapidae.

Exact synonyms: Muscicapa
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Muscicapidae, Muscicapidae
Member holonyms: Muscicapa Grisola, Muscicapa Striata, Spotted Flycatcher

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Muscicapa

genus Moschus
genus Motacilla
genus Mucor
genus Mucuna
genus Mugil
genus Muhlenbergia
genus Mulloidichthys
genus Mullus
genus Muntiacus
genus Muntingia
genus Mus
genus Musa
genus Musca
genus Muscardinus
genus Muscari
genus Muscicapa
genus Muscivora
genus Musophaga
genus Mustela
genus Mustelus
genus Mutinus
genus Mutisia
genus Mya
genus Myadestes
genus Mycobacterium
genus Mycoplasma
genus Mycteria
genus Mycteroperca
genus Mylodon
genus Myocastor

Literary usage of Genus muscicapa

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)
"Genus MUSCICAPA, Brisson, 1700. In this genus the sexes are alike : the culmen of the bill is about as long as twice the breadth of the bill at the forehead ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"... rise to great difficulties as to their scientific arrangement, no two authors agreeing in their ideas on the subject. They form the genus muscicapa of ..."

3. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1843)
"Of the genus Muscicapa were obtained five species, four of which have been described. The specimen procured of the fifth was a male. ..."

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