Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A remarkable genus of South American oscine passerine birds, of the family Cotingidæ and subfamily Gymnoderinæ, including those fruit-crows which are known as umbrella-birds: so called from their singular crests.
- noun Same as
Cephaloptera .
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- noun a genus of Cotingidae
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Examples
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Emerson Tennent also mentions one that was brought to him taken between Ambepasse and Kornegalle, where they were said to be numerous; except in colour it had all the characteristics of _P. cephalopterus_.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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In the ascent from Gampola to Adam's Peak, he speaks of the monkeys with beards like a man (_Presbytes ursinus_, or _P. cephalopterus_), and of the "fierce leech," which lurks in the trees and damp grass, and springs on the passers by.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Except in colour, it had all the characteristics of _Presbytes cephalopterus_.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Of the four species found in Ceylon, the most numerous in the island, and the one best known in Europe, is the Wanderoo of the low country, the _P. cephalopterus_ of Zimmerman. [
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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_Leucoprymnus cephalopterus, _ and subsequently by Mr.E. Bennett, under that of _Semnopithecus Nestor (Proc.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Singhalese species were, however, received in E.rope; but in the absence of information in this country as to their actual habitat, they were described, first by Zimmerman, on the continent, under the name of, _Leucoprymnus cephalopterus_, and subsequently by Mr.E. Bennett, under that of _Semnopithecus Nestor_ (_Proc.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Of the four species found in Ceylon, the most numerous in the island, and the one best known in Europe, is the Wanderoo of the low country, the _P. cephalopterus_ of Zimmerman. [
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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