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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Meliphagidae .
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Examples
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Epthianura aurifrons, GOULD. — — — — — tricolor, GOULD.
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Every evening at dusk they would fly, making a hoarse noise, to the water at the bottom of the Red Hole Creek, and return in the morning, but as winter advanced they left us, and went to the N.W. About February and the beginning of March, the Epthianura tricolor and E. aurifrons, and some of the Parrot tribe, collected in thousands on the creeks, preparatory to migrating to the same point to which the aquatic birds had gone.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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Epthianura tricolor), photographed in the Binya State Forest.
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Epthianura tricolor) last weekend while in the Binya State Forest, NSW.
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