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Definition of Tanagers
1. tanager [n] - See also: tanager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tanagers
Literary usage of Tanagers
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)
"BULLFINCH tanagers. A short beak, when viewed vertically, ... (2) tanagers,
properly so called. A conical beak, shorter than the head, as broad as it is ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"(2) tanagers, properly so called. A conical beak, shorter than the head, ...
(4) CARDINAL tanagers. Beak conical, somewhat vaulted, an obtuse salient tooth ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"Price il. iCs. per No. in loose Sheets. París.—Imported by De Buffe. The tanagers
are very beautiful birds, belonging to the order of ..."
4. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"tanagers. The tanagers form a distinctively American family, and are most abundant
in the tropics. About three hundred and fifty species are known, ..."
5. Bulletin by United States National Museum (1902)
"... the division here made (like all preceding ones) between the tanagers and the
Finches is an arbitrary one. ..."
6. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1888)
"E, OR tanagers. The brilliant family of tanagers, one of the most ... The fourteen
species of Argentine tanagers belong to ten different genera, ..."
7. New England Bird Life: Being a Manual of New England Ornithology by Winfrid Alden Stearns, Elliott Coues (1881)
"Belonging to an essentially tropical family, of which they are among the few
outliers of temperate regions, tanagers are delicate birds, as would naturally ..."
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