| 单词 | magpie robin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmagpie robin magpie robin n. (a) a long-tailed black and white songbird, Copsychus saularis, of the thrush family ( Turdidae), found in South and South-East Asia; also called dial-bird; (b) either of two related birds, C. sechellarum of the Seychelles, and C. albospecularis of Madagascar. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Copsichus (shama) dayal bird1738 dayal1751 magpie robin1839 shama1839 1839 Madras Jrnl. 10 263 Dial bird... Large or Magpie Robin. 1855 W. S. Dallas in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature III. 307 The Dayal..which..is called the Magpie Robin by the English residents in Ceylon. 1936 Discovery July 211/2 I saw, or thought I saw, a Magpie Robin..take a Catopsilia in my garden at Taipeng. 1992 World (BBC) Apr. 65 Above it..may be heard the careless song of the Seychelles magpie robin, one of the last 22 surviving members of its species. < as lemmas |
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