Passerine

I must add one more; for the Passerine, or Sparrow group includes most of the small birds, such as blackbirds and thrushes, nightingales and swallows, larks and magpies, linnets and humming-birds, and I cannot tell how many more "feathered fowl."

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

For the use of beginners a brief field color key to genera of some of the common Passerine birds is given in an appendix.

A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold

Passerine order, the solitary species performs its antics alone, or with no witness but its mate.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

In the Passerine order, not the least remarkable displays are witnessed in birds that are not accounted songsters, as they do not possess the highly developed vocal organ confined to the suborder Oscines.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

It is strange to find a Passerine family, numerous as the Tree-creepers, uniformly of one colour, or nearly so; for, with few exceptions, these birds have a brown plumage, without a particle of bright colour.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

Passerine families, the tyrant-birds, wood-hewers, and ant-thrushes, numbering together between eight and nine hundred species, a very large majority appear to have displays of this description.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

Probably not fewer than a dozen species of the plover order are breeders on the great austral continent; also other aquatic birds -- ducks and geese; and many Passerine birds, chiefly of the Tyrant family.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

Here and there, tanagers, with black backs, yellow breasts, and violet-blue throats, fluttered around us; also other variegated birds of the Passerine family.

Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863

The zebra finch belongs to the Passerine group of birds, which makes up around half of all bird species.

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The zebra finch belongs to the Passerine group of birds, which makes up around half of all bird species.

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