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Laysan, n. Ornith.|leɪˈzɑːn, -ˈzæn|
[Place name.]
Used attrib. in the name of various birds found on Laysan, an island in the Hawaiian archipelago, as Laysan albatross, the albatross Diomedea immutabilis of the northern Pacific; Laysan duck = *Laysan teal below; Laysan finch, the Hawaiian honeycreeper Telespyza cantans, a large finch-like bird noted for its song; Laysan rail, the extinct rail Porzanula palmeri; Laysan teal, a mallard of the subspecies Anas platyrhynchos laysanensis.
1893W. Rothschild Avifauna of Laysan i. 7 Telespiza flavissima, Rothsch. Yellow Laysan finch. Ibid. 19 Anas laysanensis, Rothsch. Laysan teal. [1902H. W. Henshaw Birds Hawaiian Islands 98 Porzanula palmeri... Laysan crake. This little rail is very abundant on..Laysan.] 1903Auk XX. 386 The Bonin Petrels..may be mentioned as exceeding even the Laysan Albatross in numbers. Ibid. 392 The Laysan Rail is a wide-awake, inquisitive little creature. 1945Audubon Mag. XLVII. 343/2 The Laysan rail, has now suffered a fate from which there is no return. 1961R. T. Peterson Field Guide Western Birds (ed. 2) 276 Laysan Finch..was introduced on Midway but disappeared about 1944. 1962R. S. Palmer Handbk. N. Amer. Birds I. 130 The world population of the Laysan Albatross, in 1957–58 season, was estimated at 1,500,000. 1973Sci. Amer. June 40/1 The birds are..the Laysan duck, the Hawaiian duck, [etc.]. 1992Buzzworm Nov.–Dec. 61/1 The burr is displacing the native bunchgrass, which is the preferred nesting habitat of the Laysan teal, one of the world's rarest birds. |