单词 | pigeon fieldfare |
释义 | > as lemmaspigeon fieldfare pigeon fieldfare n. British regional (now rare) the fieldfare, Turdus pilaris. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus pilaris (fieldfare) fieldfareOE juniper1598 storm cock1769 pigeon fieldfare1812 bluetail1836 jack bird1861 felt1879 1812 W. B. Daniel Rural Sports III. 151 The Fieldfare..is by some called the Pigeon Fieldfare. 1834 R. Barham Cousin Nicholas xvii, in Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 796/2 A flight of pigeon-fieldfares..alighted among the berries of the shrubbery. 1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London vi. 103 In our young days we used to shoot..two varieties of fieldfares, the fieldfare common, and what we in our juvenile fashion called the pigeon fieldfare, or felt. 1907 R. J. Balston et al. Notes Birds Kent 10 Fieldfare. Turdus pilarus, Linnæus... Felt, and Pigeon-Fieldfare. 1938 J. Walpole-Bond & P. Rickman Hist. Sussex Birds Index 377 Pigeon-Fieldfare (Fieldfare). < as lemmas |
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