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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Climacteridae .
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Examples
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These include northern logrunner or chowchilla Orthonyx spaldingii, little treecreeper Climacteris minor, Atherton scrubwren Sericornis keri, Australian fernwren Crateroscelis gutturalis, mountain thornbill Acanthiza katherina, bridled honeyeater Lichenostomus frenatus, Bower's shrike-thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha, tooth-billed catbird Ailuroedus dentirostris and golden bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana.
Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia 2008
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Australian creeper (Climacteris erythropus), and a few others; but in every one of these cases the relation of the sexes in regard to nidification is reversed, the male performing the duties of incubation, while the female is the stronger and more pugnacious.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Climacteris scandens, TEMM. — — — — — — picumnus, TEMM.
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