Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Chloropseidae — theleafbirds .
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Examples
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The beautiful southern green-bulbul (_Chloropsis malabarica_) is numbered among the Crateropodidæ.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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The Common Iora (the genus, though possibly nearly allied, is too distinct from _Chloropsis_ to allow me to adopt, as Jerdon does, one common trivial name for both) breeds in different localities from May to September.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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_Oriolus_ nor _Chloropsis_, and that it is quite impossible to place it with the _Dicruridae_.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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I have never myself found the nest of Jerdon's Chloropsis, but my friend Mr. F.R. Blewitt has sent me numerous specimens of both nests and eggs from R.ipoor and its neighbourhood.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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