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1858, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Held at Leeds in September 1858, page 122:Mr. Eyton proposes to divide birds into the following orders […] Noctivores, or night-feeding birds, containing the Caprimulgids, Trogonidæ, and Coracinidæ; […]
2008, Pascal Leray, “La pleine”, in Réflexe, 1: Cahiers d'études sérielles: Poèmes: 2003-2008, Le chasseur abstrait, →ISBN, →OL, page 37:Nous nous rendions subtilement compte que nos doigts étaient percés / de nuit / avant les arrivages / des fleurs noctivores, nocticides / qui égrènent le mot rien / dans une casserole trop étroite / (presque un vase de métal).- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2009 February 5, Stéphane Beauverger, Les noctivores, Gallimard, →ISBN, →OL: