Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not oscine; not belonging to the Oscines, or not conformingto normal oscine characters.
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For that matter, however, there is no one of our birds -- be he, in technical language, "oscine" or "non-oscine" -- whose voice is not, in its own way, agreeable.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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