raptores
IPA: ræptˈɔrz
noun
- term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders falconiformes and strigiformes
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Examples of "raptores" in Sentences
- The raptores are not very strongly represented on the Nilgiris.
- Undoubtedly passerine in structure, shrikes are as indubitably raptores by nature.
- Nor do the vultures, but a large proportion of the diurnal raptores leaves the plains of
- Now, the buzzard is a weakling among the raptores and all the other birds of prey despise it.
- Next to the warblers, the raptores are the most difficult birds to distinguish one from the other.
- Et tumidos tumid� vos superastis aqu� Qu鄊 bene totius raptores orbis auaros, Hausit inexhausti iusta vorago maris!
- Amphelinam depereunt, &c. They neigh after other men's wives (as Jeremia, cap.v. 8. complaineth) like fed horses, or range like town bulls, raptores virginum et viduarum, as many of our great ones do.
- It is tempting to formulate the theory that the raptores are migratory or the reverse according or not as they prey on birds of passage, and that the former migrate merely in order to follow their quarry.
- The three remaining raptores that are of frequent occurrence on the hills of South India are the shikra (_Astur badius_), the crested goshawk (_Lophospizias trivirgatus_), and the kestrel (_Tinnunculus alaudarius_).
- Principio ut illo advenimus, ubi primum terram tetigimus, continuo Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes; eos legat, Telobois iubet sententiam ut dicant suam; si sine vi et sine hello velint rapta et raptores tradere, si quae asportassent redderent, se exercitum extemplo domum reducturum, abituros agro Argivos, pacem atque otium dare illis; sin aliter sient animati neque dent quae petat, sese igitur summa vi virisque eorum oppidum oppugnassere.