corvidae

• “These are the crows corvidae, such as the raven, carrion crow, rook, and jackdaw.”

  Simon & Schuster: Modern Science in the Bible

• “Don't know if they had spotted an owl in the trees a few houses over, or just felt like being obnoxious corvidae...”

  Get the shotgun, Maw, they're back...

• “We are wildlife rehabilitators specializing in raptors and the corvidae, and apprentice falconers.”

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• “The difference between the height of the line 1 and the line 5 gives an idea of the difference of being the head type of the aves, (corvidae,) and the head type of the mammalia, (bimana;) a.b. c.d. 5, again, represent the five groups of the first order of the mammalia; a, being the organic structure of the highest simia, and 5, that of man.”

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

• “We cannot also fail to regard it as a remarkable proof of the superior organization and character of the corvidae, that they are adapted for all climates, and accordingly found all over the world.”

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

• “So, also, if we take the typical group of the birds, the incessores or perchers, and look in it for its typical group, the conirostres, and seek there again for the typical family of that group, the corvidae, we may expect to find a very marked superiority in organization and character.”

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

• “As the corvidae, too, are found in every part of the earth -- almost the only one of the inferior animals which has been acknowledged as universal -- so do we find man.”

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

• “The corvidae, our parallel in aves, consist of several distinct genera and sub-genera.”

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

• “It prepares us to expect in the place among the mammalia, corresponding to that of the corvidae in the aves, a being or set of beings possessing a remarkable concentration of qualities from all the other groups of their order, but in general character as far above the corvidae as a typical group is above an aberrant one, the mammalia above the aves.”

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

• “In him only is to be found that concentration of qualities from all the other groups of his order which has been described as marking the corvidae.”

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

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