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  • Other birds sometimes seen here include the black-faced hawk Leucopternis melanops, red-shouldered macaw Diopsittaca nobilis, painted parakeet Pyrrhura picta and savannah seedeaters Sporophila spp.

    Canaima National Park, Venezuela 2009

  • The blackfaced babbler (Turdoides melanops) is the other near-endemic, found in the area west of the Okavango Delta and extending into Namibia.

    Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands 2007

  • An ibis (Theristicus melanops — a species said to be found in central Africa) is not uncommon on the most desert parts: in their stomachs I found grasshoppers, cicadæ, small lizards, and even scorpions. 90 At one time of the year these birds go in flocks, at another in pairs, their cry is very loud and singular, like the neighing of the guanaco.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • An ibis (Theristicus melanops — a species said to be found in central Africa) is not uncommon on the most desert parts: in their stomachs I found grasshoppers, cicadæ, small lizards, and even scorpions. 90 At one time of the year these birds go in flocks, at another in pairs, their cry is very loud and singular, like the neighing of the guanaco.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • The beautiful verditer flycatcher (_Stoparola melanops_) must be familiar to everyone who has visited the Himalayas.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Porphyriops melanops, has a night-cry like a burst of shrill hysterical laughter, which has won for it the name of "witch;" while another,

    The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

  • They remind one more of the eggs of _Stoparola melanops_ or one of the _Niltavas_ than anything else.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • Family Species Pteropodidae Dobsonia anderseni Pteropodidae Dobsonia praedatrix Pteropodidae Melonycteris melanops Pteropodidae Nyctimene major Pteropodidae Pteropus admiralitatum Pteropodidae Pteropus gilliardorum Emballonuridae Emballonura serii Muridae Hydromys neobritannicus Muridae Uromys neobritannicus An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.

    New Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests 2008

  • Family Species Pteropodidae Dobsonia anderseni Pteropodidae Dobsonia praedatrix Pteropodidae Melonycteris melanops Pteropodidae Nyctimene major Pteropodidae Pteropus admiralitatum Pteropodidae Pteropus gilliardorum Muridae Hydromys neobritannicus Muridae Uromys neobritannicus An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.

    New Britain-New Ireland montane rain forests 2008

  • (Theristicus melanops -- a species said to be found in central

    The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845

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