| 单词 | mountain thrush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain thrush mountain thrush n. (a) any of several Old World ground thrushes of the genus Zoothera, spec. (Australian) the Bassian or scaly thrush, Z. lunulata (formerly in Z. dauma); †(b) Scottish = mountain blackbird n. (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous bough thrush1669 rock thrush1781 locust eater1790 kick-up1847 solitaire1847 mountain thrush1848 scrub-robin1848 thrush-tit1889 akalat1902 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. IV. pl. 7 Oreocincla lunulata, Mountain Thrush,..Colonists of Van Diemen's Land. 1861 H. W. Wheelwright Bush Wanderings of Naturalist 138 The Mountain Thrush of Australia is identical with ‘White's thrush’ of Britain. 1878 Zoologist 2 427/1 Ring Ouzel. Mountain Thrush. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 8 Names given to it [sc. the ring ouzel] from the nature of its favourite haunts... Mountain thrush (Kircudbright). 1929 A. H. Chisholm Birds & Green Places 28 I think now of the ground-thrush, termed also mountain-thrush and fern-thrush. 1959 V. Palmer Big Fellow 117 Flocks of silver-eyes kept up a lively chirruping in a nearby cedar, and a couple of mountain-thrushes fluttered down. 1973 S. Ali & S. D. Ripley Handbk. Birds India & Pakistan IX. 95 Longtailed Mountain Thrush. Zoothera dixoni. < as lemmas |
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