I just want to go on record that I have never recorded a "plumbeous" anything. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
I'm okay with the recent recognition that these are three separate species, but who came up with "plumbeous" for ours?. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The database says I recorded a "plumbeous vireo" in 1991. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
NW San Lorenzo, are plumbeous-gray rather than pale dull gray. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
The nadir is sounded by the plumbeous productions of Shadwell. From Wordnik.com. [A Memoir of Mrs. Behn] Reference
It is plumbeous, with a fulvous belly and white tail coverts. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
Colour plumbeous, lighter below, darkest on the fins and snout. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
A deep shining plumbeous black on the upper part, becoming paler near the belly, which from the underpart of the jaw to the perineum is ashy-grey, with irregular spots and blotches. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Between the two areas there are at least 60 restricted range species including the Chocó tinamou (VU) (Crypturellus kerriae), Baudó oropendola (EN) (Psarocolius cassini), viridian dacnis (Dacnis viguieri), crested ant-tanager (Habia cristata), Lita woodpecker (Piculus litea), and plumbeous forest-falcon (EN) (Micrastur plumbeus) just to name a few. From Wordnik.com. [Chocó-Darién moist forests] Reference
Body fusiform, as in the last, but with smaller pectoral and dorsal but larger caudal fin; the back is straighter and not so much rounded on the shoulders, and the colour is bluish-cinerous or slaty, freckled with small irregular spots of brown or plumbeous, and longitudinal streaks of the same flecked with white; the under parts a shade lighter than rest of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Rare birds of this ecoregion includethe following: Blue-bellied parrot (Triclaria malachitacea), white-bearded antshrike (Biatas nigropectus), plumbeous antvireo (Dysithamnus plumbeus), Rio de Janeiro antwren (Myrmotherula fluminensis), gray-winged cotinga (Tijuca condita), kinglet cotinga (Calyptura cristata), Kaempfer's tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus kaempferi), and cherry-throated tanager (Nemosia rourei). From Wordnik.com. [Serra do Mar coastal forests] Reference
The plumbeous redstart or water-robin. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
"Plumage plumbeous gray.". From Wordnik.com. [Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03] Reference
"Now, Ellen, has fortune given me an opportunity to correct the errors made by star - light, -- hold, -- ashy-plumbeous, -- no ears, -- horns, excessive.". From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie] Reference
Dimensions (by estimation) -- Greatest length, eleven feet; height, six feet; head, erect; nostrils, expansive; eyes, expressive and fierce; teeth, serrated and abundant; tail, horizontal, waving, and slightly feline; feet, large and hairy; talons, long, curvated, dangerous; ears, inconspicuous; horns, elongated, diverging, and formidable; colour, plumbeous-ashy, with fiery spots; voice, sonorous, martial, and appalling; habits, gregarious, carnivorous, fierce, and fearless. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie] Reference
Body fusiform, gaining its greatest diameter at the fore-part of the dorsal fin, decreasing forward to the head by straight converging lines, and with a gentle convex curve to the eyes and blow-hole; the forehead descends with a bold convex curve; the sides of the head converge from the eyes to the base of the snout, which is divided from the forehead by a transverse groove extending almost horizontally to the angles of the mouth, and it equals in length the distance from the base to the eyes, which is five inches and a-half; the lower jaw projects a little beyond the upper; the blow-hole is crescentic, in a line with the eyes, exactly in the middle of the head, with the horns of the crescent pointing towards the snout; the pectoral and dorsal fins are falcate and about equal in size; the colour is a dark plumbeous grey, almost black upon the fins, especially at their fore-part; the body below being of a pinkish ashy-grey, with a few small irregular patches of light plumbeous grey. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
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