The Passerine Birds are citizens of the world; they can endure the climate of icy mountains and northern snows, and are met with in the glowing regions of the tropics.
Although the Passerine Birds are unquestionably far below the parrots in capacity, they are intelligent, acute, susceptible of being taught, and keen of perception.
The internal structure of this race bears a strong resemblance to what we have seen in the Passerine Order.
The gullet does not enlarge into a crop, and the gizzard is never so muscular as in the Passerine birds; the various senses are very equally developed, and the brain is large.
The insectivorous and omnivorous rollers, motmots and bee-eaters have a pair of large caeca, whilst inpasserine birds of similar habit the caeca are vestigial glandular nipples.
The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine and passerine tribes resort to the fruit- bearing trees.
It seems strange that one of the very largest families of Birds should take as its type our common little Sparrow, yet the Passerine family takes its name from the Latin word passer, meaning a Sparrow.
And separations of nocturnal migrants into broad categories, such as seabirds and passerine birds, are often both useful and feasible.
The way passerine birds are killed and eaten in that country is a disgrace to the government of Italy, and a standing reproach to the throne.
The function of the depressor mandibulae muscle in certain passerine birds.
In some non-passerine species as well as in certain passerines the muscle also serves to raise the upper jaw by acting on the quadrate, which is capable of rotating vertically on its otic process.
This concept was emphasized by Hudson (1937) who found but little variation in muscle pattern among members of the several families of passerine birds.
This muscle is represented by the pars caudifemoralis only, the pars iliofemoralis being absent in passerine birds as far as is known.
He assumes that since palato-maxillaries seem to be absent in the majority of passerine birds, their occurrence in certain nine-primaried oscine groups indicates relationship among these groups.
Most ornithologists agree that some of the passerine families of current classifications are artificial groups.
Patterns of leg-musculature were chosen for study because earlier work showed that muscle patterns in the legs of passerine birds are highly stable and vary but little.
Passerine birds typically sing at a high rate throughout courtship and nestbuilding, but at a markedly lower rate thereafter.
Natal plumages and downy pteryloses of passerine birds of North America.
The White-eyed Vireo was singing from a perch 30 feet high in a dead elm, when the unidentified passerine landed 10 feet distant.
The decidedly aquatic habits of these birds form a curious exception to the rest of the Passerine order.
The Passerine Dentirostres are characterised by a bill more or less strong, compressed on each side of the point.
The Passerine Tenuirostres are characterised by a long slender beak, straight or curved, but always without indentation.
Johannes Muller's classical treatise on the vocal organs of Passerinebirds (Abhandl.
One other Passerine form is also worthy of special mention.
The Cachila rears two broods in the year; the first is hatched about the middle of August, that is, one to three months before the laying-season of otherPasserine species.
The Icteridae or Troupials constitute a large group of Passerine birds allied to our Starlings (Sturnidae), of which they take the place in the New World.
The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine, andpasserine tribes, resort to the fruit-bearing trees.
A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.
Thanks to this feature of their anatomy, passerine birds are able to sleep on branches of trees out of reach of prowling beasts of prey.
According to Mr. Herrick, the instinct of inspecting and cleaning the nest is mainly confined to the great passerine and picarian orders.
The nests of most passerine birds are scrupulously clean.
The latter have the ordinary passerine foot, which consists of three forwardly directed toes and a backwardly directed one.
Examples of the power of the grip of the foot of a passerine bird will occur to every one who has had much to do with our feathered friends.
Note the foot of the robin, bluebird, catbird, wrens, warblers and other passerine or perching birds.
A group ofpasserine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.
If we examine the breeding passerine birds of the barrier island and the breeding passerine assemblage at the same latitude in lowland Sonora (Mayr, loc.
Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera.
The thick-heads were by far the most common passerine bird in the relict forest on Siamil Island, being quite tame and easily approached.
On Karindingen Island this was the only passerine bird seen.
The sequence of plumages and moults of the passerine birds of New York.
The structure of the cloacal protuberance of the Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) and certain other passerine birds.
In order to make sure of his material he performed the laborious task of evolving a new classification of the host of Passerine birds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passerine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aquiline; avian; dovelike; nesting
