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  • Occasionally seen are glossy ibis Plegadis falcinellis, rednecked nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis, little buttontail Turnix sylvatica, and azure-winged magpie Cyanopico cyanus.

    Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

  • The rodent genus Octodon comprises three species of degus, while the remaining four genera are all represented by single species: the Chilean climbing mouse (Irenomys tarsalis), the Chilean shrew opossum (Rhyncholestes raphanurus), the coruro (Spalacopus cyanus), and the monito del monte (Dromiciops gliroides, VU).

    Biological diversity in the Chilean winter rainfall-valdivian forests 2009

  • Forest areas are characterized with blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix), and other forest birds (Dendrocopos major, Oriolus oriolus, Columba palumbus, Streptopelia turtur, Parus cyanus, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Anthus trivialis) and others.

    Kazakh upland 2008

  • And a wonder it was to see; for its whole orb was a-shimmer with enamel and white ivory and electrum, and it glowed with shining gold; and there were zones of cyanus 168 drawn upon it.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Blue cornflower, centaurea cyanus, volunteers with a stipa tenuissima at the right.

    Blue In The Garden-Part One « Fairegarden 2007

  • It has been common to confound ultramarine with the _cyanus_ and _coeruleum_ of the ancients; but their cyanus, or Armenian blue, was a kind of mineral or mountain blue, tinged with copper; and their coeruleum, although it may sometimes have been real ultramarine, was properly and in general a copper ochre.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • Beckmann is fully convinced that the _cyanus_ of Theophrastus and the

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • Scarlet-hued Poppies and Bluebottles (_Centaurea cyanus_).

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • And a wonder it was to see; for its whole orb was a-shimmer with enamel and white ivory and electrum, and it glowed with shining gold; and there were zones of cyanus [1802] drawn upon it.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • Opposite to this, again, the fourth river first falls into a place dreadful and savage, as it is said, having its whole color like cyanus: [44] this they call Stygian, and the lake which the river forms by its discharge, Styx.

    Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates 427? BC-347? BC Plato

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