Crossword-Solution: OSCINE 6 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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.

The HOLARCTIC REGION, comprising North America and the extratropical mass of land of the Old World, may from an ornithological point of view be characterized by the Colymbi, _Alcidae, Gallidae_ or Alectoropodous Galli, and the Oscines, which have here reached their highest development; while Ratitae, Tinami, Psittaci, and non-Oscine Passeres (with the exception of _Tyrannidae_ extending into North America and _Conurus carolinensis_) are absent.

Restricted to and peculiar to the sub-region is only the little Oscine family of _Chamaeidae_, restricted to the coast district of California.

These prophetic remarks, which were no doubt inspired by the studies of MacGillivray, have found ample justification in the later history of ornithology; to give a single illustration, it was through the aid of anatomy only, in this instance, of the vocal organs, that modern students have been able to define the true Passerine or Oscine birds, as distinguished from all others, and as the highest representatives of the avian class.