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‖ oscines, n. pl.|ˈɒsɪniːz|
[a. L. oscinēs, pl. of oscen, oscin-, f. ob (ob-) + can-ĕre to sing.]
1. Rom. Antiq. The birds from whose notes or voices auguries were taken, e.g. the raven, owl, etc.
1621R. Brathwait Nat. Embassie (1877) 52 The Augur hauing left behind him his Oscines or Prophesing birds. 1656Blount Glossogr., Oscines are these kind of birds, by whose chirping, feeding, noise or voyces the Augures fore⁓told things to come; as the Crow, Pie, Chough.
2. Ornith. In some systems of classification, the name of an order or extensive group of birds, the ‘Song-birds’, containing those families of the Insessores or Passerine Birds which possess true song-muscles, attached to the extremities of the bronchial semi-rings and forming a complicated and effective musical apparatus.
Introduced into Ornithology in 1812 by Blasius Merrem, as one of two divisions of the Hymenopodes; also used by Keyserling and Blasius 1839–40, Müller 1845–6 (Oscines or Polymyodi), Cabanis 1847, Sundevall 1872–4, Gadow 1893, and other recent naturalists.
1885Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 28/2 The Oscines or true Passeres..a group in which the vocal organs..attain the greatest perfection. 1896― Dict. Birds Introd. 115 Thus we reach the true Oscines, the last and highest group of Birds, and one which..it is very hard to subdivide. Ibid. s.v. Syrinx 940 Most of the Oscines seem to possess five or seven pairs of syringeal muscles.
Hence ˈoscinine |-aɪn|, † oˈscinian adjs., belonging to the Oscines.
1896Newton Dict. Birds Introd. 66 In all these species he found the vocal organs to differ essentially in structure from those of other Birds of the Old World, which we now call Passerine, or, to be still more precise, Oscinine [1885 in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 27/2 Oscinian]. Ibid. 95 The other families forming Sundevall's Scutelliplantares are not Oscinine [Encycl. Brit. 41 Oscinian], nor all even Passerine. |