Crossword-Solution: ICTERIDAE
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ICTERIDAE (5)
The different species of Oropendula or Orioles (Icteridae) of tropical America choose high, smooth-barked trees, standing apart from others, from which to hang their pendulous nests.
All I know is that their family name was the same as ours, _Icteridae_, and means something or other, I forget what.
The additional palatal bones just named are also found in several other peculiarly American families, namely, _Tanagridae_, _Icteridae_ and _Mniotiltidae_--whence it may be perhaps inferred that the _Emberizidae_ are of Transatlantic origin.
Mayr (1946:27) considered the Trochilidae, Tyrannidae, and Icteridae Pan-American in distribution; however, he suggested that they probably originated in South America, and I here treat them as South American in origin.
Bills of this form have been developed independently in several other, unrelated, groups; as Tordoff (1954:7) has pointed out, _Molothrus_ of the Family Icteridae, _Psittorostra_ of the Family Drepaniidae, and most members of the Family Ploceidae have bills as heavy and conical as those of the fringillids.