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  • Darwin reported or collected Cinereous harriers Circus cinereus, Andean tapaculos Scytalopus magellanicus, Austral canasteros Thripophaga anthoides and Yellow-bridled finches Melanodera xanthrogramma, all apparently breeding residents.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • We also saw Altai snowcocks (Tetraogallus altaicus) running up the same ridge, and a Cinereous vulture ( Aegypius monachus) soon followed the Lammergeier into the sky above it.

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • We also saw Altai snowcocks (Tetraogallus altaicus) running up the same ridge, and a Cinereous vulture ( Aegypius monachus) soon followed the Lammergeier into the sky above it.

    "Ten Birds" Part 2 2006

  • _ Cinereous, capite subaurato, mystace aurato setis paucis nigris, thorace vittis tribus latissimis nigris, abdomine fulvescenti-cinereo, pedibus rufescentibus, femoribus nigro vittatis, tarsis nigris, alis cinereis apice nigricantibus, halteribus testaceis.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • At length Grill himself having taken part of Cinereous, or Ash-like Lead, with the Star adhering, cupellated in a Test, and found from one ounce of this

    The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius

  • Cinereous: ash-colored; gray tinged with blackish [ultra ash gray].

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • -- Cinereous above, white below; the colour varies from pure ashy grey to grey with an isabelline tinge.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Birds characteristic of the desert steppe include Houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata), Pallas sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus), Henderson's ground jay (Podoces hendersoni), greater plover (Charadrius leschenaultii), Mongolian desert finch (Bucanetes mongolicus), chukar (Alectoris chukar), lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), and Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus).

    Eastern Gobi desert steppe 2007

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