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Definition of Honeyguides
1. honeyguide [n] - See also: honeyguide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honeyguides
Literary usage of Honeyguides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1862)
"The honeyguides are chiefly from the South of Africa, two species only being
Asiatic, so far as known. They have usually been classed with the Cuckoos, ..."
2. Nyasaland Under the Foreign Office by Hector Livingston Duff (1906)
"... and diminutive black widow-birds; honeyguides; starlings with plumage even
and bright as jewelled armour ; parrots (not very well represented, ..."
3. The World's Birds: A Simple and Popular Classification of the Birds of the World by Frank Finn (1908)
"Not more than half the known Cuckoos have this habit, but it is found again in
the honeyguides and in some of the American ..."
4. Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa .. by William Swainson (1861)
"... respecting the instincts of the honeyguides, are now sufficiently authenticated
and are too well known to be here repeated. The ridicule which Bruce, ..."
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