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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Pellorneidae.

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Examples

  • Halirrhothios, who had insulted Alcippe, the daughter of the war-god.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • Adraste brought her a seat, Alcippe a soft woollen rug while Phylo fetched her the silver work-box which Alcandra wife of Polybus had given her.

    The Odyssey 1900

  • Adraste and set for her the well-wrought chair, and Alcippe bare a rug of soft wool, and Phylo bare a silver basket which Alcandre gave her, the wife of Polybus, who dwelt in

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

  • I love not Alcippe, for yesterday she did not kiss me, and take my face between her hands, when I gave her the dove.

    Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

  • Footnote 2: The males of Cryptophialus and Alcippe, species of marine animals, are apparent exceptions to this rule.

    The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

  • In general appearance these eggs not a little resemble those of some of the Bulbuls, and it seems difficult to believe that they are eggs of birds of the same genus as _Alcippe atriceps_ [A], the eggs of which are so much smaller and of such a totally different type.

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

  • Adraste brought her a seat, Alcippe a soft woollen rug while

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • We find two species of Eupetes, a curious Malayan genus allied to the forked-tail water-chats; two of Alcippe, an Indian and Malay wren-like form; an Arachnothera, quite resembling the spider-catching honeysuckers of Malacca; two species of Gracula, the Mynahs of India; and a curious little black Prionochilus, a saw-billed fruit pecker, undoubtedly allied to the Malayan form, although perhaps a distinct genus.

    The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • But as Alcippe had not made a single trick, he was _capot_, which gave Saint-Bouvain 40; this with the

    The Bores 1622-1673 Moli��re 1647

  • Family Common Name Species Phasianidae Chestnut-breasted partridge Arborophila mandellii Phasianidae Buff-throated partridge Tetraophasis szechenyii* Timaliidae Hoary-throated barwing Actinodura nipalensis Timaliidae Ludlow's fulvetta Alcippe ludlowi Timaliidae Immaculate wren-babbler Pnoepyga immaculata Psittacidae Derbyan parakeet Psittacula derbiana* An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.

    Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests 2008

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