Lexicographical Neighbors of Picarians
Literary usage of Picarians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"No definite rule can be laid down as to the nesting of the picarians, and there
are further exceptions, though of a modified kind, and capable of a ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1891)
"As this is the special characteristic of the picarians, it is just possible ...
A very simple advance upon the Passerine type is presented by the picarians. ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1896)
"1-90), embracing ' The picarians,' are by R. Bowdler Sharpe ... varied assortment
of family groups here arrayed under the general term of 'The picarians. ..."
4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"Among Birds, the Penguins, Gulls, Rails, Owls, picarians (Kingfishers, &c.)
and Passeres have appeared, as well as the extinct orders ..."
5. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"Ill, picarians, Parrots, Owls, and Hawks. London, 1903, (XVIII + 410, with 141
illustr.). 8vo. Thienemann, J. II. Jahresbericht (1902) der Vogelwarte ..."
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