Passeres

Now, however, the very latest authority on this subject, Dr. Schufeldt, has come to the conclusion that swifts are only greatly modified Passeres, and that the humming-birds should form an order by themselves.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

The South American Tree-creepers, or Woodhewers, as they are sometimes called, although confined exclusively to one continent, their range extending from Southern Mexico to the Magellanic islands, form one of the largest families of the order Passeres; no fewer than about two hundred and ninety species (referable to about forty-six genera) having been already described.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

Fissirostres, four of Scansores, the Psittaci, and several genera, with three entire families of Passeres, comprising about twelve hundred species, or about one-seventh of all known birds.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

The cases in which, whenever the male is gaily coloured, the female is much less gay or quite inconspicuous, are exceedingly numerous, comprising, in fact, almost all the bright-coloured Passeres, except those enumerated in the preceding class.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

It is the first example of a nocturnal bird among the Passeres dentirostrati.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Passeres, and of which there are several species, almost rival them in beauty of plumage.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

It is the first example of a nocturnal bird among the Passeres dentirostrati.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

All singing birds, and those that have any pretensions to song, not only in Britain, but perhaps the world through, come under the Linnaean _ordo_ of _Passeres_.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756

& _Passeres_, 8. cum _Asellis_, 9. qui adferuntur arefacti; and the Sea monsters, the _Seal_.

The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631

Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries which keep out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds, yet practically it is not so; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes which are preeminently wanderers, it is found that the others (and especially the Passeres, or true perching-birds, which form the vast majority) are generally as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves.

The Malay Archipelago 2004