单词 | crombec |
释义 | crombecn. A popular name for African warblers of the genus Sylvietta. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of tailor-bird1769 rubythroat1783 bush-goat1865 Cetti's warbler1875 tree-warbler1881 gnat-catcher1883 crombec1901 wren-warbler1924 1875–84 E. L. Layard Birds S. Afr. 303 Sylvietta rufescens…The ‘Stomp~stertje’ of the Dutch colonists, and the ‘Crombec’ of Le Vaillant.] 1901 A. C. Stark & W. L. Sclater Birds S. Afr. II. 117 Sylviella [sic] pallida. The Zambesi Crombec. 1908 A. K. Haagner & R. H. Ivy Sketches S. Afr. Bird-life 80 The Crombec (Sylviella rufescens), known to the farmers as the Stomp-stertje (Stump-tail), is ash-grey above and tawny-buff below. 1955 C. W. Mackworth-Praed & C. H. B. Grant Birds E. & N.E. Afr. II. 423 Crombecs or Stump-tails... Called Crombecs by the early Dutch settlers in South Africa because of their curved bills. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1901 |
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