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Mycteria   Listen
proper noun
Mycteria  n.  A genus of birds including certain of the wood ibises, including the endangered Mycteria americana; it is sometimes assigned to a subfamily Mycteriinae.
Synonyms: genus Mycteria.






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"Mycteria" Quotes from Famous Books



... over the water plants on the surface of the pool, and in the bushes on its margin were great numbers of a kind of canary (Sycalis brasiliensis) of a greenish-yellow colour, which has a short and not very melodious song. We had advanced but a few steps when we startled a pair of the Jaburu-moleque (Mycteria americana), a powerful bird of the stork family, four and a half feet in height, which flew up and alarmed the rest, so that I got only one bird out of the tumultuous flocks which passed over our heads. Passing towards the farther end of the pool I saw, resting on the surface ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates



Words linked to "Mycteria" :   wood ibis, flinthead, family Ciconiidae, genus Mycteria, bird genus, Mycteria americana



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