| 单词 | log-runner |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslog-runner log-runner n. Australian a ground-dwelling bird of the genus Orthonyx found in northern New South Wales, Queensland, and New Guinea. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Orthorhynchidae > genus Orthonyx (log-runner) straight-claw1894 log-runner1898 chowchilla1931 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 272/1 Log-runner, an Australian bird, called also a Spine~tail. 1901 A. J. Campbell Nests & Eggs Austral. Birds I. 252 A nest I found in the Big Scrub, Richmond River, which I believe belonged to the Orthonyx, or Log Runner, was in a damp situation. 1931 N. W. Cayley What Bird is That? 44 Chowchilla (Northern Log-runner) Orthonyx spaldingi...Call, a series of notes, like ‘Chow-chilla-chow-chow-chilla’. It is also said to be a wonderful mimic. 1934 A. C. Chisholm Bird Wonders Austral. xxi. 206 Settlers in northern Queensland know the Black-headed Logrunner not only as the ‘Auctioneer-bird’, but as the ‘Chowchilla’, since, they say, a company of the birds freely shouts, ‘Chow-chilla-chow-chow’. 1965 Austral. Encycl. V. 359/1 Log-runners construct large domed nests of leaves and moss, with a side-entrance placed usually on the ground or on the top of a low stump. < as lemmas |
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