Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In C. L. Bonaparte's classification of birds (1850), the first tribe of the third order of Passeres, embracing those lower Passeres which form Sundevall's scutelliplantar division of that order, together with all the picarian birds
- In C. J. Sundevall's classification, the second order of birds, agreeing in the main with the Picariæ as commonly understood, but including the parrots and pigeons. It is most nearly a synonym of the old Picæ of Linnæus.
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Basia mille patent, basia mille latent, A thousand appear, as many are concealed; gratiarum sedes gratissima; a sweet-smelling flower, from which bees may gather honey, [4915] Mellilegae volucres quid adhuc cava thyma rosasque,
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Quum tacet omnis ager, pecudes, pietaeque volucres;
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Caeterasque volucres Pontum hyeme adveniente e nostris regionibus Europeis transvolantes.
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[4667] Aeeriae primum volucres te Diva tuumque significant initum, perculsae corda tua vi.
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Nam et homines bestiæ, et volucres maiores et corpulentiores sunt alijs, et præ vbertate vix inuenirentur in vna ciuitate decem mendici.
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“Dictamnum genetrix Cretaea carpit ab Ida, Puberibus caulem foliis et flore camantem Purpureo; non illa feris incognita capris Gramina, cum tergo volucres haesere sagittae.”
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Citharædi, et qui testudine ludunt, apud eos reperiuntur quàm plurimi, qui prædulci modulamine et volucres et pisces irretiant et capiant.
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Nam et homines besti�, et volucres maiores et corpulentiores sunt alijs, et pr� vbertate vix inuenirentur in vna ciuitate decem mendici.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cithar鎑i, et qui testudine ludunt, apud eos reperiuntur qu鄊 plurimi, qui pr鎑ulci modulamine et volucres et pisces irretiant et capiant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Saepe suas volucres legit mihi grandior aevo, quaeque necet serpens, quae iuvet herba, Macer.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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