| 释义 |
poë-bird|ˈpəʊiːbɜːd|
Also 8 poy-, pue-bird.
[See quot. 1865.]
The name (given by Capt. Cook, and retained in some English ornithological works) for a New Zealand bird, Prosthemadera novæzelandiæ, subsequently called by the English settlers parson-bird (q.v.) and by the Maoris tui.
1777Cook Voy. I. 97 Amongst the small birds I must not omit to particularise the wattle-bird, poy-bird. [In the illustration spelt poe-bird, and in the list of plates, poi.] Ibid. 98 The poy-bird is less than the wattle-bird. The feathers of a fine mazarine blue. a1802Bowles Poems (1855) I. 120 The poe-bird flits,..With silver neck and blue enamelled wing. 1865Howitt Discov. Austr. I. vi. 111 This bird they called the Wattle-bird, and also the Poy-bird, from its having little tufts of curled hair under its throat, which they called poies, from the Otaheitan word for ear-rings. 1868Wood Homes without H. xxv. 470 The splendidly decorated Poe Birds. 1896List Anim. Zool. Soc. (ed. 9) 237 Poë Honey-eater. |