The zacuan is known to ornithologists as the Oriolus dominicensis.
The breast is, in its turn, separated from the greyish abdomen by a broad black band, which ornithologists term a collaret.
Scientific ornithologists recognise this great difference between the two faunas, and include the Himalayas in the Palæarctic region, while the plains form part of the Oriental region.
So many species exist, and the various species are so difficult to differentiate, that the family drives most field ornithologists to the verge of despair.
Cryptolopha xanthoschista and Hodgson's grey-headed flycatcher-warbler are the names that ornithologists have given to a very small bird.
Although most of these ornithologists marveled at the numbers of birds, information is lacking from which most changes in populations can be noted.
The point of this digression is to show that seabird ornithologists must not rely on government programs to provide continuous data over a long period of years--not, at least, in most countries.
At this symposium, it was left to a biologist with no pretentions in either physics or mathematics to demonstrate the need for seabirdornithologists to understand basic environmental processes well beyond their usual range of interests.
Although the characters of this variety are not quite constant, yet it has been named by several distinguished ornithologists as a distinct species.
This conspicuous character has caused the bird to be ranked by several ornithologists as a distinct species under the name of U.
Its breeding-place has seldom been discovered, and the first of its eggs ever seen by ornithologists was brought home by Sir L.
We have then the genus Larus, which ornithologists have attempted most unsuccessfully to subdivide.
These two latter species are closely allied, and would by some ornithologists be considered as only well-marked races or varieties; but the Mimus trifasciatus is very distinct.
Ornithologists have generally included them among the creepers, although opposed to that family in every habit.
The faithfulness to nature of the pictures, in color and pose, have been commended by such ornithologists and authors as Dr.
In Madeira there is a rock-pigeon which a few ornithologists have suspected to be distinct from C.
It is one of a trio of birds which has confused the ornithologists much.
Another favorite sparrow, but little noticed, is the wood or bush sparrow, usually called by the ornithologists Spizella pusilla.
But ornithologists are all silent upon the subject.
The ornithologists divide and subdivide the birds into a great many orders, families, genera, species etc.
The red-eyed vireo has almost as extensive a range, and at least in New England is possibly more numerous; but except among ornithologistsit remains a stranger, even to country-bred people.
In the middle of December one of our Cambridge ornithologists went to Cape Cod on purpose to find them.
Ornithologists are discouraging people to wait for, and Mountain Billy got so restless under the gnat tree that he had to invent a new fly-brush for himself.
This a question often conjectured upon by both ornithologists and casual observers.
In a former number of BIRD-LORE we had something to say about what we believe to be the difference between ornithologists and bird-lovers.
These bulbuls occur all over India, but ornithologists divide them into several species: 15.
Hence it has seemed to many ornithologists who have studied the subject, that these two birds, so long unhesitatingly regarded as distinct species, are only local races of one and the same dimorphic species.
Certain eminent continental ornithologists claim that this is so, but facts observed in England hardly bear out the conclusion.
This fact proves that the woodcock's habits are being modified, and ornithologists have now to discover the reasons of its extended range.
This Duck is widely distributed over many parts of Europe, Northern Asia, and North America, the birds of the latter continent being regarded by some ornithologists as a distinct species.
The Golden-Eye forms the type of the well-marked genus Clangula of Fleming and of Boie, and is known to most modern ornithologistsas C.
This species, the Colymbus glacialis of Linnaeus and of ornithologists generally, is, in its breeding plumage, one of the handsomest of British birds.
Sometimes many of its own feathers are found in its stomach, mixed with the food, but as yet ornithologists have been unable to assign any plausible explanation of the fact.
It was known to Brisson as Colymbus minor, and to most modern ornithologists as Podicipes minor, although some few writers speak of this bird as P.
This species, the Corvus cornix of Linnaeus and ornithologists generally, is only known as a winter visitor to certain parts of England, but is a common resident in Scotland and Ireland.
It is clear that the olderornithologists let their imagination get the better of their knowledge or their judgment, and their statements have been blindly repeated by most of their successors.
The ornithologists say it is easy to tell the difference.
Now, the interest of this observation is that most of our ornithologists were prepared to state that the Kestrel is entirely insectivorous, and never touches small birds.
This was visited by a party of ornithologists in the Manawatu in 1908.
The seasonal variation in color is great and has led ornithologists to name several species which do not exist.
Most ornithologists consider the Passeriformes to be the order of highest rank among birds, chiefly because of the highly developed vocal powers of many of the species.
There were two rival check-lists of North American birds, each perhaps equally authoritative though differing in important details, which led to confusion, and a tendency to array our ornithologists into two somewhat hostile camps.
These "hints" are addressed to students who desire to become scientific ornithologists and to whom specimens are a necessity.
It is a better introduction to ornithology and to ornithologists than has ever been written before .
It has recently been remarked that the field ornithologistsof to-day are of two kinds: first, those who collect; second, those who observe.
Nearly every state in the Union and province in Canada has been heard from, and we expect in our next number to publish the names and addresses of the more than fifty prominent ornithologists who will form Bird-Lore's 'Advisory Council.
At the first congress forty-seven ornithologists were elected to active membership--presumably all of the satisfactory candidates available.
Such was the case with our ornithologists for some years prior to the founding of the Union.
As years passed it served not only as the official organ of the club, but as a medium of communication between American ornithologists at large.
Some of our best ornithologists have seen the color proof and pronounce it good.
That many of the best known ornithologists occupying public positions in the United States favor the restriction of egg-collecting, etc.
Theodore Gill with the coöperation of several of the most prominentornithologists of Washington.
At the present time, ornithologists recognize four of these as occurring within the limits of the United States, as set forth in Chapter IV beyond.
North American ornithologists rely upon as distinctive of this form.
He says among other things in this article that "All recent ornithologists have considered the wild turkey of Mexico and the southwestern United States (aside from M.
The blue-winged goose of Edwards is by some ornithologists considered as the young of the last named bird in one of its stages towards maturity, but this opinion I believe to be erroneous, for the following reasons.
I believeornithologists are mistaken in supposing that this bird becomes white or rather grey during the winter.
The immature bird has often been described by ornithologists as the female.
Ornithologists rarely concern themselves with anything but the superficial characters of birds.
This, the most celebrated of all our warblers--though for some inscrutable reason some ornithologists appear to regard it as a near ally of the redstarts and robin!
Eliot Howard, one of the keenest Ornithologists of our time.
Of the forty species of British warblers there is not one which the most expert of our Ornithologists would venture to identify by the character of the flight alone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ornithologists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
