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Use for: pipits, wagtails

• Thin, long-tailed birds with long claws on the hallux are birds of grasslands, pastures, and prairies.
• Pipits have muted brown plumages, and wagtails are more dapper in their shades of gray, black, and white, often with a patch or wash of yellow. Longclaws combine the browns of one with the yellow (or even red) splashes of the other, and they bear an uncanny resemblance to the meadowlarks (Icteridae) of the New World, in appearance and in their melodious whistled songs. They all share the white outer tail feathers so characteristic of birds of open country. Although only the wagtails translate the meaning of their family’s Latin name (Motacilla means “moving tail”), most motacilids constantly pump their long tails as they walk.

Use for: mule

• art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Both the simple folk song and the complex electronic composition belong to the same activity, music. Both are humanly engineered; both are conceptual and auditory, and these factors have been present in music of all styles and in all periods of history, throughout the world.

• any device for producing a musical sound. The principal types of such instruments, classified by the method of producing sound, are percussion, stringed, keyboard, wind, and electronic.

• a genus of flowering plants of the family Tamaricaceae. It includes 13 species native to temperate Eurasia, ranging from Spain to China.

• 1: a treatise on some aspect of nature
• 2: the natural development of something (such as an organism or disease) over a period of time
• 3: the study of natural objects especially in the field from an amateur or popular point of view