breve

From Middle English breve, variant of bref, from Old French brieve, breve (feminine form of brief, bref), from Latin brevis (“short”).

(music) A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.


mourner

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

rare, rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger

rare, non-rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English mourner, mornere, equivalent to mourn + -er.

Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.


turca

Pteroptochos megapodius
Pteroptochos megapodius#Translingual

A moustached turca (Pteroptochos megapodius).


gnateater

Any of the South and Central American passerine birds in the family Conopophagidae.

töpökkä

any of the South American passerine bird in the family Conopophagidae


antvireo

Any of eight species of birds in the genus Dysithamnus.


recurve-billed bushbird

en-noun

recurve-billed bushbird (plural recurve-billed bushbirds)

Clytoctantes alixii, a species of antbirds.


rufous-backed antvireo

rufous-backed antvireo (plural rufous-backed antvireos)

A tropical bird whose natural habitat is located on Brazilian montanes, Dysithamnus xanthopterus


pitta

Any passerine belonging to the taxonomic family Pittidae.


manakin

Generally thought to derive, like manikin, from Middle Dutch mannekijn. Compare French manakin, German Manakin. Doublet of manikin and mannequin.

Any of several small Central and South American passerine birds of the family Pipridae.


broadbill

Any of several small passerine birds of the family Eurylaimidae (Asian and Grauer's broadbills) or Calyptomenidae (African and green broadbills).

harlekiini

bird of the family Eurylaimidae or Calyptomenidae


becard

From French bécard, bécarde, beccard (“a merganser with a prominent beak”), equivalent to bec (“beak”) + -ard.

A South American flycatcher of the genus Pachyramphus.


broadmouth

(dated) broadbill (one of the Eurylaimidae family of Asian passerine birds).


pipra

(zoology) Any member of the bird genus Pipra; a manakin.


thamnophilid

(zoology) Any of the Thamnophilidae; an antbird.


suboscine

Crucial to my model, however, are two suboscines, one of which is the threewattled bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata), that do not quite fit into the current picture of oscine versus suboscine classification.

2007, Irene M. Pepperberg, “19: Emergence of Linguistic Communicetion”, in Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Angelo Cangelosi, editors, Emergence of Communication and Language, page 376:

Sequence data unequivocally support the paraphyly of suboscine passerines (Figure 9.5). This is not too surprising when it is considered that prior to Sibley's DNA hybridization work, which recovered suboscine monophyly, relationships of suboscines had been controversial on morphological grounds.

2011, F. Keith Barker, “Phylogeny and Diversification of Modern Passerines”, in Gareth Dyke, Gary Kaiser, editors, Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds, page 244:

New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae) are the most basal passerines, suboscines are mostly South American, and most taxa originally included in the oscine group Corvida are Australasian.

2012, Darren Naish, “20: Birds”, in M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, James Orville Farlow, editors, The Complete Dinosaur, page 418:

Any of the passerine birds of suborder Tyranni, which includes broadbills, asities, pittas, antbirds and others.


conopophagid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Conopophagidae; a gnateater.


eurylaimid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Eurylaimidae; a broadbill.


formicariid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Formicariidae; an ant thrush.


oxyruncid

(zoology) Any sharpbill in the family Oxyruncidae.


philepittid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Philepittidae.


phytotomid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Phytotomidae, now considered part of the Cotingidae; a plantcutter.


piprid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Pipridae; a manakin.


pittid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Pittidae; a pitta.


pteroptochid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Pteroptochidae, a synonym of the Rhinocryptidae; a tapaculo.


rhinocryptid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Rhinocryptidae; a tapaculo.


gallito

Any of either of two species of the Rhinocryptidae family of birds

A crested gallito (Rhinocrypta lanceolata) or

A flowering tree in the legume family Fabaceae, of species (Erythrina fusca).


dragoon bird

(obsolete) A noisy pitta (Pitta versicolor), of Australian, New Guinea, and Indonesia.


crescentchest

Any of several species of birds from South America, in the genus Melanopareia.


asity

From Malagasy (Sakalava dialect) asity, asaity.

Any of the family Philepittidae of small suboscine passerine birds.


sapayoa

A passerine bird of the species Sapayoa aenigma found in lowland rainforests in Panama and northwest South America.


laniisoma

A bird in the Tityridae family of the genus Laniisoma.


tityra

Originally a genus name used for the Black-tailed Tityra, Tityra cayana, of South America, referring to the rustic shepherd character Tityrus in Virgil's Eclogues, in allusion to the noisy, aggressive behaviour of the bird.

In the scrubby woods that cover most of the Yucatan, suboscines such as the masked tityra, the bright-rumped attila, and the boat-billed flycatcher are all common.

1988 February 26, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:


tapaculo

tapaculos (plural)
tapacolo (alternative)

Any of the family Rhinocryptidae of small suboscine passeriform birds found mainly in South America.


purpletuft

From purple + tuft, a reference to the purple feather tufts on the flanks of the male.

Any of the genus Iodopleura of small, short-tailed birds found in the canopy of forests in tropical South America.


antpitta

Any of the small, insect-eating passerine birds in family Grallariidae, of subtropical and tropical Central and South America.


band-tailed manakin

band-tailed manakin (plural band-tailed manakins)

Pipra fasciicauda, a species of passeriforme bird.


green-breasted pitta

green-breasted pitta (plural green-breasted pittas)

Pitta reichenowi, a species of titta bird native to central Africa.


New World suboscine

New World suboscine (plural New World suboscines)

Any suboscine bird of the clade Tyrannides.


stipplethroat

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Epinecrophylla, found in Central and South America.


bushbird

Any of the tropical birds in the genera Neoctantes or Clytoctantes, found in South America.


antthrush

Any of the tropical birds in the family Formicariidae, found in Central and South America.


myiobius

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Myiobius, found in Central and South America.


schiffornis

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Schiffornis, found in Central and South America.


bristlefront

Any of the birds in the genus Merulaxis, found in Brazil.


bamboowren

Any in the genus Psilorhamphus, of which the spotted bamboowren (Psilorhamphus guttatus) is the only species.