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Definition of Lanius
1. Noun. Type genus of the Laniidae: typical shrikes.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Laniidae, Laniidae
Member holonyms: Butcherbird, Lanius Lucovicianus, Loggerhead Shrike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lanius
Literary usage of Lanius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"The genera are determined by the general form of the beak, which is strong and
compressed in lanius and in Turdus, depressed in ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"... of the" Species of lanius.— This is an attempt, as explained in the title,1
to trace back to a common origin the various species of Shrikes, ..."
3. Archiv for Mathematik Og Naturvidenskab (1878)
"For begge disse Grupper er Navnet lanius bragt i Anvendelse af forskjellige
Forfattere, idet nogle har gjort excubitor til Type for Slægten lanius i ..."
4. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"The genus lanius, however, embraces the northern forms ... THE TRUE SHRIKES.
GENUS lanius. lanius, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. ..."
5. The Natural History of the Birds of Western Africa. by William Swainson, Andrew Crichton (1837)
"0 lanius rutilus, Latham, iJ-c. Vieill. Ency. Melh. 727. ... Two of these, the
present and the lanius collurio*, occur through the whole length of Africa; ..."
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