Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of the finch family, Fringillidæ, founded by Baird in 1858, containing a number of fully spotted and streaked species peculiar to North America; the song-sparrows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A genus of American song sparrows and swamp sparrows.
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Emberizidae .
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- noun American song sparrow and swamp sparrow
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Examples
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_Melospiza lincolnii alticola_ (Miller and McCabe).
Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban
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Of course, they were _Melospiza fasciata montana_, but their clear, bell-like trills were precise copies of those of the merry lowland minstrels of the East.
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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Consulting Professor W.W. Cooke's list of Colorado birds, I found that _Melospiza fasciata_ is marked "migratory, rare," and has been known thus far only in the extreme eastern part of the State; whereas _Melospiza fasciata montana_ is a summer resident, "common throughout the State in migration, and not uncommon as a breeder from the plains to eight thousand feet."
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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_Melospiza fasciata_, to which I have so often listened in my native
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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This last was pretty certainly an improvised cadenza, such a thing as I do not remember ever to have heard before from _Melospiza melodia_.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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Jim Adelman, a doctoral student at the University of Princeton, and a staff working with Michaela Hau and Martin Wikelski at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell have now succeeded in measuring fever and illness-related behavioural changes in various populations of a North American bird species living in the wild, the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia).
Lockergnome Lockergnome 2010
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Male song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) are territorial year-round; however, neuroendocrine responses to simulated territorial intrusion (STI) differ between breeding
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Male song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) are territorial year-round; however, neuroendocrine responses to simulated territorial intrusion (STI) differ between breeding
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The researchers used radio telemetry to track the young song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) and monitor responses to recorded bird songs played over two speakers.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Male song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) are territorial year-round; however, neuroendocrine responses to simulated territorial intrusion (STI) differ between breeding
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