Definition of "volucres" []

• In C. L. Bonaparte's classification of birds (1850), the first tribe of the third order of Passeres, embracing those lower Passeres which form Sundevall's scutelliplantar division of that order, together with all the picarian birds
• In C. J. Sundevall's classification, the second order of birds, agreeing in the main with the Picariæ as commonly understood, but including the parrots and pigeons. It is most nearly a synonym of the old Picæ of Linnæus.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Basia mille patent, basia mille latent, A thousand appear, as many are concealed; gratiarum sedes gratissima; a sweet-smelling flower, from which bees may gather honey, [4915] Mellilegae volucres quid adhuc cava thyma rosasque,"
• "Caeterasque volucres Pontum hyeme adveniente e nostris regionibus Europeis transvolantes."
• "[4667] Aeeriae primum volucres te Diva tuumque significant initum, perculsae corda tua vi."