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单词 black crowned crane
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black crowned crane
crowned crane n. either of two cranes native to sub-Saharan Africa and having a crest of stiff golden feathers, Balearica pavonina (more fully black crowned crane) and B. regulorum (more fully grey crowned crane).
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1751 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 192 (heading) The crowned African Crane.]
1771 Encycl. Brit. I. 364/2 The first species is the pavonina, or crowned crane, which has an erect bristly crest.
1836 N. Isaacs Trav. E. Afr. II. xvii. 324 The Crane (Numidion [sic] or Demoiselle), Baleari or Crowned Crane..are common.
1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (ed. 2) 482 The Stanley cranes (Anthropoides) are natives of the East Indies, and the Crowned Cranes (Balearica) are African.
1905 W. L. Sclater in W. Flint & J. D. F. Gilchrist Sci. in S. Afr. 143 The Mahem or Crowned Crane (Balearica chrysopelargus).
1993 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 108 174 The central-African black crowned crane is..more than three times as endangered as the southern-African grey crowned crane.
2005 B. Keating & S. Keating Blood Sisters (2006) xxix. 567 Two crowned cranes were standing at the waterhole, looking down at their own reflected beauty.
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