| 单词 | rifleman bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrifleman bird a. A rifle-bird (genus Ptiloris). Also rifleman bird. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Paradisaeidae (bird of paradise) > genus Ptilorrhis (rifle-bird) rifle-bird1825 rifleman1826 1826 R. P. Lesson & P. Garnot Voy. Coquille, Zoologie I. 669 Nous nous procurâmes un très-bel individu de l'epimaque royal à Sydney... Il..portait dans la colonie le nom vulgaire de riffle-man, pour rappeler que ce fut un soldat de la garnison qui le tua le premier. 1833 New S. Wales Mag. (Sydney) 12 In the long recesses of their thick and trackless scrubs..the call of the ‘khaggak’, or rifleman, would be most likely heard. 1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. ix. 215 The former is the Paradise Honeysucker, the Rifleman or Rifle-bird of the colonists (Ptiloris paradiseus). 1918 C. Morris Winston's Cumulative Encycl. II Bird of Paradise... Among the most striking of these birds are..the rifleman or rifle-bird, Ptilorhis paradisea. < as lemmas |
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