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soft-billed, a. Ornith.
[soft a. 31.]
Having a soft bill. Also in specific names.
a1705Ray Synop. Avium (1713) 68 In Tenuirostras, Soft Bil'd Birds..and Crassirostras, Hard Bil'd Birds. 1771G. White Selborne xlii, Many of our soft-billed summer birds of passage. 1785Latham Gen. Synop. Birds III. ii. 522 Soft-billed Duck..inhabits New Zealand. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 97 A soft-billed bird, that requires as much care as a nightingale! 1871Darwin Desc. Man ii. xvi. (1890) 490 Many of the soft-billed birds are songsters. |