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Passeres   Listen
proper noun
Passeres  n. pl.  (Zool.) An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.






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"Passeres" Quotes from Famous Books



... The name (sc. Tree-creeper) is given to several New Zealand birds of the genus Certhiparus, N.O. Passeres. The Maori names are Pipipi, ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... 2. Passeres, [Greek: strouthos]—the things that open their wings, and are not otherwise noticeable; small birds of the land and wood; the food of the serpent, of man, or of the stronger creatures of their own kind,—that even these, though among the ...
— Love's Meinie - Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds • John Ruskin



Words linked to "Passeres" :   Muscicapidae, Corvidae, Certhiidae, family Prunellidae, family Ploceidae, Sittidae, family Certhiidae, Sturnidae, family Artamidae, family Fringillidae, family Motacillidae, family Acanthisittidae, family Coerebidae, family Passeridae, Sylviidae, Ploceidae, Meliphagidae, suborder Oscines, Cinclidae, oscine, family Alaudidae, family Timaliidae, family Sittidae, Oscines, order Passeriformes, Oriolidae, Motacillidae, Coerebidae, Alaudidae, family Sturnidae, Passeriformes, family Muscicapidae, family Thraupidae, Paradisaeidae, Artamidae, Paridae, Timaliidae, family Cinclidae, Laniidae, family Turdidae, family Meliphagidae, family Corvidae



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