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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Meropidae .
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Examples
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In the next family, the Bee-eaters, is another equally isolated bird, Meropogon forsteni, which combines the characters of African and Indian Bee-eaters, and whose only near ally, Meropogon breweri, was discovered by M.
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Meropogon forsteni, which combines the characters of African and Indian
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 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Bee-eaters, and whose only near ally, Meropogon breweri, was discovered by M.
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 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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With a rather limited bird population, Celebes has an immense preponderance of species confined to it, and has also six remarkable genera (Meropogon, Ceycopsis,
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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