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Mimus

NOUN
  1. type genus of the family Mimidae: mockingbirds

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  • Thickets of mixed microphyllous and broad-leaved woodland subject to salt spray and wind occur on seaward-facing dune slopes (Eugenia, Brachylaena, Euclea, Diosporos and Mimusops species). Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
  • In answer to a question from Hegius, Agricola goes on to distinguish the words mimus, histrio, persona, scurra, nebulo; with quotations from Juvenal and Gellius. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
  • Birds found here and in only few other places include white-bellied seedeaters Sporophila leucoptera, grassland yellow-finches Sicalis luteola, chalk-browed mockingbirds Mimus saturninus, tropical peewees Contopus cinereus, rufous-throated antbirds Gymnopithys rufigula, black-breasted puffbirds Notharchus pectoralis, and plain-bellied emeralds Amazilia leucogaster. Marajó varzea
  • Bond further noted that all the Antillean thrasher and trembler species have immaculate, greenish blue eggs, like those of Melanotis, Melanoptila, and Dumetella, but unlike those of any species of Mimus.
  • Castaliusque mihi noua pocula fontis alumnus5 ingerit et late campos metatus apertos imponitque iugum uati retinetque corymbis implicitum ducitque per auia, qua sola numquam trita rotis. iuuat aurato procedere curru et parere deo: uiridis en ire per herbas10 imperat: intacto premimus uestigia musco; et, quamuis cursus ostendat tramite noto obuia Calliope facilis, insistere prato complacitum, rudibus qua luceat orbita sulcis. nam quis non Nioben numeroso funere maestam15 iam cecinit? quis non Semelen ignemque iugalem letalemque simul nouit de paelicis astu? quis magno recreata tacet cunabula Baccho, ut pater omnipotens maternos reddere mensis dignatus iusti complerit tempora partus? Exordium to a Poem on Hunting
  • ‘vestigium’, not ‘vestige’, in Culverwell; ‘pantomimus’ in Lord Bacon for ‘pantomime’; ‘mystagogus’ for ‘mystagogue’, in Jackson; ‘atomi’ in English Past and Present
  • The two-cluster test did not uncover significant rate variation between a cluster composed of catbirds and Antillean thrashers and tremblers, and a second cluster including Melanotis and Mimus species.
  • The characteristic floristic elements are Manilkara hexandra, Mimusops elengi, Diospyros ebernum, Strychnos nux-vomica, Eugenia spp., East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
  • Another was the gallimimus, an 'ostrichlike creature'. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of these lineages includes the three species of Mimus, the second is formed by Melanotis caerulescens, and the third comprises the catbirds and Antillean thrashers and tremblers.
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