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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of swallows, of the family Hirundinidæ, having a small tuft of feathers isolated at the bottom of the tarsus, a slightly forked tail, the edge of the outer primary not serrate, and plain mouse-gray and white plumage. The type-is the well-known bank-swallow, C. riparia, widely distributed in the northern hemisphere. See cut under
bank-swallow . The proper name of the genus is Clivicola (which see).
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bilby It is upper case: "the well-known bank-swallow, C. riparia", etc. The history of upper- and lowercase on this site and its database is somewhat vexed. Tinkering is endless, but the issue is that cotile (like any other word) pulls up what the Century Dictionary has in its database. Wordnik does not own or control said database. There may ultimately be a workaround or fix but for the time being there are other more pressing issues to fix here. Oct 14, 2011
biocon The first letter of any generic epithet (genus-name) must be upper case.
Cotile is an obsolete generic epithet for certain swallows. The current binomen of the Bank Swallow is Riparia riparia. Riparia is the generic epithet of this avian species. Oct 14, 2011