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slender-billed, a.
[slender a. 12 a.]
Having a slender bill; tenuirostral.
1769G. White Selborne xxvi, It ought, no doubt, to have gone..among your slender-billed small birds. 1801Latham Gen. Synop Birds Suppl. II. 165 Slender-billed creeper... Bill..very slender and moderately curved. 1839Audubon Ornith. Biog. V. 251 Slender-billed Guillemot, Uria Townsendi. Ibid. 333 Slender-billed Fulmar, Procellaria Tenuirostris. 1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 83 Slender-billed Nuthatch. Ibid. 332 Slender-billed Shearwater. 1895Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. IV. 109 The slender-billed cockatoos. |