单词 | notornis |
释义 | notornisn. New Zealand. The takahe, Porphyrio mantelli (family Rallidae), a flightless rail of New Zealand; (also Notornis) the genus to which the takahe belongs, now usually included in the genus Porphyrio. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > notornis mantelli moho1848 notornis1848 takahe1851 1848 R. Owen in Proc. Zool. Soc. 8 The Notornis is a large modified form of the same natural family of the Grallæ as the Porphyrio and Brachypteryx. 1850 Proc. Zool. Soc. 209 Notice of the discovery..in the Middle Island of New Zealand, of a living specimen of the Notornis, a bird of the Rail family. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. II. lxvii. 449 The Notornis is much larger than the ordinary Coots, and..the wings are so rudimentary as to be useless for flight. 1930 W. R. B. Oliver N.Z. Birds 350 Suspecting that it was a Notornis, Connor took it to the station where he carefully skinned it, preserving both the skin and the bones. 1950 Discovery July 217/2 The news of the discovery of Notornis was announced on the following day—November 21 [1948]. 1962 J. Frame Edge of Alphabet xii. 74 There's a valley of the notornis, the flightless bird. 1986 J. Henderson Jim Henderson's People 161 There's speculation on the remote chance an odd ground owl or kakapo, or even a notornis, may yet be found here. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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