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Based on adventitiously colored specimen from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

From The Subspecies of the Mountain Chickadee by Grinnell, Joseph

When both are adventitiously deaf and both have deaf relatives, the percentages are 17.5 and 9.6.

From The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States by Best, Harry

The percentages rise when one parent is adventitiously deaf, and the other congenitally: 8.1 and 6.5.

From The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States by Best, Harry

How painful the condition of Poverty, contrasted with that of Wealth; yet how closely are they allied, and how adventitiously separated!

From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, Richard

That a man of his speculative vigour, knowing so many extra-Hellenic races, should have hit upon one or two good things adventitiously is only to be expected.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman