Crossword-Solution: AVI 3 letters, 92 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Nova (potius nota) res est quod eorum patres et avi nostro Imperio tributa dederunt, (Liutprand, in Legat.

The boy he chuck’d a brown i’ the air, and bit I’ the face the shilling: heaved a thumping stone At a lean hen that ran cluck clucking by, (And hit her, dead as nail i’ post o’ door,) Then _abiit_—what’s the Ciceronian phrase?— _Excessit_, _evasit_, _erupit_—off slogs boy; Off like bird, _avi similis_—(you observed The dative? Pretty i’ the Mantuan!)—_Anglice_ Off in three flea skips.

But it is only connected by a remote and secondary affinity, if connected at all, with the _avia_ of Scandinavia, assuming that to be the true German word for _water_, which, if it had come down to us in Gothic, would have been _avi_, genitive _aujôs_, and not a mere Latinised termination.

Elliot Coues, seems to doubt whether it is now entitled to a place in the avi-fauna of South Carolina, where it was once found in large flocks.

How reluctant Nature seems in some cases to undo her own work! How long she will allow a specialized organ, with the correlated instinct, to rest without use, yet ready to flash forth on the instant, bright and keen-edged, as in the ancient days of strife, ages past, before peace came to dwell on earth! The avi-fauna is relatively much richer than the mammalia, owing to the large number of aquatic species, most of which are migratory with their "breeding" or "subsistence-areas" on the pampas.