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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Ramphastidae .
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Examples
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_Cyphorhinus carinatus_, Cab.] [Footnote 84: _Xenops_, _Anabates_, _Dendrocolaptes_, and many other kinds of _Capito_ and _Picus_.] [Footnote 85: These are different kinds of _Cassicus_ and _Icterus_.] [Footnote 86: Kinds of Pteroglossus.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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The most curious, however, is the curly-crested toucan (Pteroglossus
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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