Ornithology Definition

Ornithology Sentence Examples

• The local works on English birds are too numerous to be mentioned; almost every county has had its ornithology recorded.

• The ornithology of New South Wales and Queensland is more varied and interesting than that of the other provinces.

• But this is not the only way in which the author has rendered service to the advanced student of ornithology.

• The account of its habits by Alexander Wilson is known to every student of ornithology, and Wilson's followers have had little to do but supplement his history with unimportant details.

• From this tour Ray and Willughby returned laden with collections, on which they meant to base complete systematic descriptions of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Willughby undertook the former part, but, dying in 1672, left only an ornithology and ichthyology, in themselves vast, for Ray to edit; while the latter used the botanical collections for the groundwork of his Methodus plantarum nova (1682), and his great Historia generalis plantarum (3 vols., 1686, 1688, _1704).