Largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres.
This tint grows pale more easy than in the other genera of the passerine order.
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Gravel beds, abandoned by film studios, were blissfully repossessed by passerine birds and opportunist plants.
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The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine and passerine tribes resort to the fruit- bearing trees.
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Hood's labors were poetic, but his sports were passerine.
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The primary transmission cycle of WNV in the southeastern United States apparently involves Culex mosquitoes and passerine birds.
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She perched on the stile as light as a perchingbird, and drew her lithe figure on one side to make room for Paul.
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The visitor next approaches the varieties of the family known as the tooth-beaked perchingbirds.
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The perchingbirds would therefore have arisen by later adaptations after the power of flight had been evolved.
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The perchingbirds are subdivided into five families: the Wide-gaping; the Slender-Beaked; the Toothed-Beaked; the Cone-Beaked; and the Climbers, or Scansores.
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"There is," says Dr. Woodward, "a typical bird's 'merrythought' between the wings, and the hind leg is exactly that of a perchingbird."