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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Icteridae.

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  • Of land-birds I obtained twenty-six kinds, all peculiar to the group and found nowhere else, with the exception of one lark-like finch from North America (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) which ranges on that continent as far north as 54 degrees, and generally frequents marshes.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • Of land-birds I obtained twenty-six kinds, all peculiar to the group and found nowhere else, with the exception of one lark-like finch from North America (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) which ranges on that continent as far north as 54 degrees, and generally frequents marshes.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • Of land-birds I obtained twenty-six kinds, all peculiar to the group and found nowhere else, with the exception of one lark-like finch from North America (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), which ranges on that continent as far north as 54°, and generally frequents marshes.

    Chapter XVII 1909

  • Dolichonyx oryzivorus, diagram showing variations of, 55

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Of land-birds I obtained twenty-six kinds, all peculiar to the group and found nowhere else, with the exception of one lark-like finch from North America (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) which ranges on that continent as far north as 54 degrees, and generally frequents marshes.

    The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845

  • I still scratch my head in amazement at the migration of a bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus).

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

  • I still scratch my head in amazement at the migration of a bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus).

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

  • I still scratch my head in amazement at the migration of a bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus).

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

  • I still scratch my head in amazement at the migration of a bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus).

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

  • I still scratch my head in amazement at the migration of a bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus).

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

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