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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Troglodytidae.

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Examples

  • I afterwards found that the bird is called by the Portuguese the realejo, or organ-bird (_Cyphorhinus cantans_).

    On the Banks of the Amazon William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • _Cyphorhinus carinatus_, Cab.] [Footnote 84: _Xenops_, _Anabates_, _Dendrocolaptes_, and many other kinds of _Capito_ and _Picus_.] [Footnote 85: These are different kinds of _Cassicus_ and _Icterus_.] [Footnote 86: Kinds of Pteroglossus.

    Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

  • Cyphorhinus pheaeocephalus), A Resident Bird of the Lowland Tropics, "Dr. Wingfield and coauthor D.S. Busch more specifically say that" [i] n many avian species, using conspecific playback to simulate a territorial intrusion results in an increase in LH [Luteinizing hormone] and T [testosterone] in the territorial male. "

    xenogere 2010

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