congener

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It is the handsomest of our Woodpeckers, having brighter tints than its congener of the plains, Colaptes agricola.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

The legs of the bontebok are white from the knee down, while those of his congener are only white on the insides—the outsides being brown.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne

Its habits, too, are much the same, so that little can be said of it which does not equally apply to its congener.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

Both these birds have much in common with their larger congener the capercally and its eastern representative.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

Eastward of the range of the present species its place is taken by its congener C. caniceps, which is easily recognized by wanting the black hood and white ear-coverts of the British bird.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various