Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of turdoid or dentirostral oscine passerine birds (so called from the hair-like filaments with which some of the feathers end), containing a large number of chiefly African and Asiatic species: sometimes referred to the family Pycnonotidœ. It is also called Trichas and Trichophorus.
  • noun A book-name of the species of the genus Criniger: as, the yellow-bellied criniger, C. flaviventris.

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Examples

  • Many animal species occur in peat swamp forests, but only the Borneo roundleaf bat, Hipposideros doriae, and two birds, the Javan white-eye (Zosterops flavus) and the hooked-billed bulbul (Setornis criniger), are considered near endemic (Table 1, Table 2).

    Borneo peat swamp forests 2008

  • Nine of these species are threatened, including the endangered Mindanao bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba criniger).

    Mindanao-Eastern Visayas rain forests 2007

  • Family Common Name Species PycnonotidaeHook-billed bulbulSetornis criniger ZosteropidaeJavan white-eyeZosterops flavus

    Borneo peat swamp forests 2008

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