Definition of Oscine. Meaning of Oscine. Synonyms of Oscine

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Oscine. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Oscine and, of course, Oscine synonyms and on the right images related to the word Oscine.

Definition of Oscine

Oscine
Oscine Os"cine, a. (Zo["o]l.) Relating to the Oscines.

Meaning of Oscine from wikipedia

- Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines, from Latin oscen, "songbird". The P****eriformes contains 5,000 or so species...
- (non-singing, Americas), P****eri (songbirds), and the basal New Zealand wrens. Oscines have the best control of their syrinx muscles among birds, producing a...
- The nine-primaried oscines is a group of bird families in the suborder P****eri (oscines) of the P****eriformes. The composition of the group has changed...
- Tyrannus. These have a different anatomy of the syrinx musculature than the oscines (songbirds of the larger suborder P****eri), hence the common name of suboscines...
- songbirds. They were long placed at or near the beginning of the songbirds or oscines (now often called P****eri), just after the suboscines and before the swallows...
- superfamily of p****erines that are referred to as the New World nine-primaried oscines that includes majority of endemics which are exclusive to the New World...
- two classes of birds: Oscines, who gave au****es via their singing; and Alites, who gave au****es via how they flew. The Oscines included ravens, crows...
- superfamily Meliphagoidea and originated early in the evolutionary history of the oscine p****erine radiation. Although honeyeaters look and behave very much like...
- Ridgely, Robert; Guy, Tudor (1989). The Birds of South America: Volume 1: The Oscine P****erines. University of Texas Press. p. 14. ISBN 9780292707566. Retrieved...
- The plain-brown woodcreeper (Dendrocincla fuliginosa), is a sub-oscine p****erine bird in subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the ovenbird family Furnariidae...