单词 | rifle-bird |
释义 | rifle-birdn. Each of three birds of paradise of the genus Ptiloris, found in north-east Australia and New Guinea, the males having velvety black plumage with iridescent metallic patches, and a display call said to resemble the sound of a whistling bullet.magnificent, paradise, Victoria rifle-bird: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Paradisaeidae (bird of paradise) > genus Ptilorrhis (rifle-bird) rifle-bird1825 rifleman1826 1825 in B. Field Geogr. Mem. New S. Wales 503 Rifle-bird, Ptiloris par[a]diseus, Sw. 1831 W. Swainson & J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana II. 321 Such a form we..see in..the Rifle-bird of the Australian colonists. 1869 W. Macgillivray in J. Gould Birds Austral. Suppl. pl. 51 This fine Rifle Bird [sc. P. magnifica] inhabits the densest of the brushes in the neighbourhood of Cape York. 1915 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Mar. 14/4 There is also..the sharp, bursting noise of the whipbird..the creaky whistle of the drongo..and the soft, cheery hail of the rifle bird. 1969 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 33 Picking meat from small skeletons, Counting damp notes in a tin, The rifle birds ringing at noon In the steep woods. 2000 R. L. Kitching Food Webs & Container Habitats 139 Among the trees and epiphytes are the homes of mound-building scrub turkeys and the rifle-bird, Australia's bird-of-paradise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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