Sentence example with the word 'toucans'

toucans

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To these follow the tanagers (Tanagridae), with upwards of forty genera (only one of which crosses the border), and about 300 species; the piculules (Dendrocolaptidae), with as many genera, and over 200 species; the ant-thrushes, (Formicariidae), with more than thirty genera, and nearly 200 species; together with other groups which, if not so large as those just named, are yet just as well defined, and possibly more significant, namely, the tapaculos (Pteroptochidae), the toucans (Rhamphastidae), the jacamars (Galbulidae), the motmots (Monotidae), the todies (Todidae), the trumpeters (Psophiidae), and the screamers (Palamedeidae); besides such isolated forms as the seriema (Cariama), and the sun-bittern (Eurypyga).   [Please select]

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* * * * * This is the smallest species of the genuine Toucans yet known, inhabiting, though sparingly, the northern and southern extremities of tropical America.   [Please select]

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The particulars wherein it differs from the supposed toucans are so many and striking that it will be superfluous to dwell upon them in detail.   [Please select]

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Its immense beak--out of all proportion to its body--is not the only point of resemblance it bears to the toucans.   [Please select]

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Unlike the toucans, however, it cannot climb trees, and is therefore not of the Scansorial order.   [Please select]

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_THE GREAT HIMALAYAN BARBET_ Barbets may be described as woodpeckers that are trying to become toucans.   [Please select]

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Somewhere parrots squawked, somewhere else the puppylike yapping of toucans disturbed the solitude; nothing else.   [Please select]

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The gaudy tanagers, that cannot be tamed-- the noisy lories, the resplendent trogons, the toucans with their huge clumsy bills, and the tiny bee-birds (the _trochili_ and _colibri_)--all glance through the sunny vistas.   [Please select]

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The beautiful birds--the parrots, the toucans, and the trogons--all go to rest at an early hour; and other winged creatures take possession of the air.   [Please select]

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