Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference
For that matter, however, there is no one of our birds -- be he, in technical language, "oscine" or "non-oscine" -- whose voice is not, in its own way, agreeable. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
A phylogenetic supertree of oscine passerine birds (Aves: Passeri). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Thus, our study has revealed more than 200 annotated and unique genes that have not been previously detected in the context of the oscine song system. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
It was something after the order of the purple martin's melodious sputter, only the tones were richer and fuller and the music better defined, as became a genuine oscine. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
Ine adjectives that pertain to, resemble or are characteristic of an animal: accipitrine ` hawklike 'leonine ` lionlike' anguine ` snakelike 'lupine ` wolflike' anserine ` gooselike 'lutrine ` otterlike' aquiline ` eaglelike 'murine ` mouselike' asinine ` asslike 'oscine ` songbirdlike' bovine ` cowlike 'ovine ` sheeplike' canine ` doglike 'passerine ` perching - caprine ` goatlike' songbirdlike 'cervine ` deerlike' pavonine ` peacocklike 'colubrine ` kingsnakelike' piscine ` fishlike 'or ` gartersnakelike' porcine ` piglike or elephantine ` elephantlike '` swinelike' equine ` horselike 'ranine ` froglike' feline ` catlike 'serpentine ` serpentlike' herpestine ` mongooselike 'suilline ` hoglike' hircine ` goatlike, 'especially suine ` swinelike' in strong odor taurine ` bull-like 'or lustfulness ursine ` bearlike' lacertine or lacertilian viperine ` viperlike '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference
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