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ˈring-necked, a.
[ring n.1]
Having the neck ringed or marked with a band or bands of colour. In various names of birds and animals, as ring-necked barnacle, ring-necked diver, ring-necked duck, ring-necked loon, ring-necked parakeet, ring-necked pheasant, ring-necked pochard, ring-necked snake, ring-necked teal, ring-necked turtle. (See quots.)
1852Macgillivray Brit. Birds IV. 629 Bernicla Brenta,..*Ring-necked Barnacle.
1862C. A. Johns Brit. Birds Index, *Ring-necked Diver.
1831Swainson & Richardson Fauna Boreali-Amer. ii. 454 Fuligula rufitorques,..*Ring-necked Duck. 1874J. W. Long Amer. Wildfowl xxviii. 278 Ring-necked ducks..are seldom found in very large numbers.
1842Macgillivray Brit. Ornith. II. 207 Colymbus glacialis, *Ring-necked Loon.
1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 213 A grove of mango-trees,..peopled with innumerable *ring-necked paroquets. 1885Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 322/1 note, The Ring⁓necked Parakeet of the same country [Africa].
1834Jardine Ornith. III. 189 The *Ring-necked Pheasant, Phasianus torquatus. 1885Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 733/1 The Ring-necked Pheasant of China.
1838Eyton Anatidæ 158 Fuligula rufitorques,..*Ring-necked Pochard.
1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 283 One only [is found] in Britain, the common *Ring-necked Snake (C. natrix and Natrix torquatus).
1889Sclater & Hudson Argentine Ornith. II. 132 Querquedula Torquata..(*Ring-necked Teal). Ibid., In the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres the Ring-necked Teal is strictly migratory.
1837Macgillivray Brit. Birds I. 291 Columba Turtur,..*Ring-necked Turtle. |