Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Pycnonotidae .
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Examples
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Over 230 bird species have been recorded, 143 typical of primary forest, including white-breasted guineafowl Agelastes meleagrides (E), Nimba flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae (I), western wattled cuckoo-shrike Campephaga lobata (V), and yellow-throated olive greenbul Criniger olivaceus (V).
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The most important of these include the yellow-headed rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus, VU), rufous fishing owl (Scotopelia ussheri, EN), and yellow-throated olive greenbul (Criniger olivaceus, VU).
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These eggs are totally unlike the eggs of _Criniger ictericus_.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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Ceyx among Kingfishers, Criniger among Thrushes, Rhipidura among
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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