Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of grass-warblers or Cisticolæ, having a graduated tail of only ten rectrices and a long stout bill.
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- noun a genus of Sylviidae
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Examples
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These include the near-endemic white-eyed prinia Prinia leontica (VU), the grey-winged robinchat Cossypha polioptera, lemon dove Columba larvata, Sharp's apalis Apalis sharpei, whitenecked rockfowl Picathartes gymnocephalus (VU) and Nimba flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae (VU), A detailed account of birds in Liberian Nimba is given in Coston & Curry-Lindahl (1986).
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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A prinia nest without a cuckoo finch egg is worth one thousand 15p, a red-faced cisticola, three thousand.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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The rufous-vented prinia is a strict endemic limited to this ecoregion, and the white-winged tit is a near endemic shared with the adjacent Khathiarbar-Gir Dry Deciduous Forests.
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Avifaunal diversity is also high, and a number of rare species occur, including two near-endemic species, the Sierra Leone prinia (Prinia leontica, VU) and the iris glossy-starling (Coccycolius iris).
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Among birds, the ferruginous lark (Certhilauda burra, VU) and Sclater's lark (Spizocorys sclateri, LR) are strictly endemic to thisecoregion, while another five species are near-endemic: Karoo chat (Cercomela schlegelii), tractrac chat (Cercomela tractrac), red lark (Certhilauda burra), Karoo scrub robin (Cercotrichas coryphaeus), red-headed cisticola (Cisticola subruficapillus), and the Namaqua prinia (Phragmacia substriata).
Nama Karoo 2008
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In other drawers I look at the major’s set of cuckoo finch, prinia, and cisticola eggs.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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The cuckoo finch meanwhile—across millions of years—works on its reading and replicating of the globes beneath it in the prinia’s nest.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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In the old fields at the Major’s farm at Musumanene—the big tree next to the river, in Tonga—a prinia or cisticola nest parasitised by a cuckoo finch will earn Lazaro and two other farm workers, Kiverness and Collins, twenty thousand Zambian kwacha about £3.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Sometimes the prinia notices a cuckoo finch’s egg in its nest and jettisons it.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
reesetee commented on the word prinia
Small, insect-eating bird, sometimes referred to as a wren-warbler. Found in tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia.
February 26, 2007