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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Furnariidae.

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Examples

  • Some species of Xenops and Magarornis, like woodpeckers, climb vertically on tree-trunks in search of insect prey, but also, like tits, explore the smaller twigs and foliage at the extremity of the branches; so that the whole tree, from its root to its topmost foliage, is hunted over by them.

    The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

  • _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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