melodia
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of melodia
Special use of Late Latin melōdia melody
Example Sentences
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Similar to melodia but with less brown and the markings blacker and more distinct.
From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed
This last was pretty certainly an improvised cadenza, such a thing as I do not remember ever to have heard before from Melospiza melodia.
From Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey
The nesting habits and eggs are like those of melodia.
From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed
The eggs average smaller than those of melodia.
From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed
The Philomela as made by Jardine is a melodia with two mouths.
From The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments by George Laing Miller
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