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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Cardinalidae.

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Examples

  • The hummingbird (Amazilia saucerottei australis) and the streaked saltator (Saltator albicollis flavidicollis) are two examples.

    Patía Valley dry forests 2008

  • In the Yunguilla Valley one might find Atlapetes pallidiceps, or in the Sozoranga and Celica parts of the ecoregions for example Syndactyla ruficollis, Hemispingus piurae, Myrmeciza griseiceps, Saltator nigriceps, and Atlapetes seebohmi.

    Ecuadorian dry forests 2007

  • The only instructors of my youth were therefore one Saltator, who taught me several motions for my legs; and one Ficus, whose business was to show me the cleanest way (as he called it) of cutting off a man's head.

    The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies 1900

  • Saltator coram archa David et insanus apparuit coram Rege; blanda, astuta, et tecta Judith astitit

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Saltator coram archa David et insanus apparuit coram Rege; blanda, astuta, et tecta Judith astitit

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • The only instructors of my youth were therefore one Saltator, who taught me several motions for my legs; and one Ficus, whose business was to show me the cleanest way (as he called it) of cutting off a man's head.

    A journey from this world to the next — Volume 2 Henry Fielding 1730

  • Montane Woodcreeper, Pacific Tuftedcheek, and Black-winged Saltator turned up in the intermittent rain.

    10,000 Birds Mike 2010

  • Saltator coram archa David et insanus apparuit coram Rege; blanda, astuta, et tecta Judith astitit Holoferni; et astate Jacob meruit benedici,

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Endemic birds found in this ecoregion include the endangered Cochabamba mountain-finch (Poospiza garleppi); the maquis canastero (Asthenes heterura), rufous-bellied saltator (Saltator rufiventris), and chesnut canastero (Asthenes steinbachi) classified as vulnerable; the wedge-tailed hillstar (Oreotrochilus adela) and Tucuman mountain-finch (Poospiza baeri), classified as near threatened; and the citron-headed yellow-finch (Sicalis luteocephala) and bare-eyed ground-dove (Metriopelia morenoi), classified as a species of least concern.

    Central Andean dry puna 2008

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