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Insessor  n.  (pl. insessores)  (Zool.) One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the common singing birds.



Insessores  n. pl.  (Zool.) An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group.






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"Insessores" Quotes from Famous Books



... refer it to that genus, but that I have some reason to think that it belongs to the meliphagous birds, which are so abundant in New Holland, and which have been observed to assume the appearance of almost every group in the Insessores. Indeed, some birds of that country, which have been decided to be meliphagous, such as the Meliphaga cyanops, Lewin,*** [Graculine Honey-eater, Lath. Syn. 4 166. sp. Ed. 2da.] and others allied to it, and which differ ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King



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