Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of turdoid or dentirostral oscine passerine birds (so called from the hair-like filaments with which some of the feathers end), containing a large number of chiefly African and Asiatic species: sometimes referred to the family Pycnonotidœ. It is also called
Trichas and Trichophorus. - noun A book-name of the species of the genus Criniger: as, the yellow-bellied criniger, C. flaviventris.
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Examples
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Many animal species occur in peat swamp forests, but only the Borneo roundleaf bat, Hipposideros doriae, and two birds, the Javan white-eye (Zosterops flavus) and the hooked-billed bulbul (Setornis criniger), are considered near endemic (Table 1, Table 2).
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Nine of these species are threatened, including the endangered Mindanao bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba criniger).
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Family Common Name Species PycnonotidaeHook-billed bulbulSetornis criniger ZosteropidaeJavan white-eyeZosterops flavus
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