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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Tyrannidae .
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Examples
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Meanwhile, the activities of introduced birds like the great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) (brought in 1957 to control Anolis lizards) continue to aid in invasive plant dispersal.
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These prolific little creatures were soon so abundant that the dogs subsisted almost exclusively on them; the fowls also, from incessantly pursuing and killing them, became quite rapacious in their manner; whilst the sulphur tyrant-birds (Pitangus) and the
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10 Egrets; _Leucophoyx t. thula_ (Molina) 233 17 Kiskadees; _Pitangus sulphuratus_ (Linné) 19 Black Witch; _Crotophaga ani_ (Linné) 19 House Wren; _Troglodytes musculus clarus_ Berl. and Hart
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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23 5 Kiskadee; _Pitangus s. sulphuratus_ (Linné) 25 26 Parrakeets; _Touit batavica_ (Bodd.) 26 Great Black Orioles; _Ostinops d. decumanus_ (Pall.) 26 5 House Wrens; _Troglodytes musculus clarus_ Berl. and Hart
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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