| 单词 | standardwing bird of paradise |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstandardwing bird of paradise 1. More fully standardwing bird of paradise. A bird of paradise native to Indonesia, Semioptera wallacii, having brown plumage with (in the male) a blue-green breast shield and two pairs of white elongated wing feathers (see standard n. 7). Also called Wallace's standardwing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Paradisaeidae (bird of paradise) > other types of kingbird1704 superb bird of paradise?a1808 manucode1835 standardwing1859 1859 J. Gould Birds Austral.: Suppl. (1869) Pl. 52 Semioptera wallacei, G. R. Gray. Standard-wing. 1894–5 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. III. 338 The standard-wing..is characterised by..the presence of two long projecting feathers from each wing. 1935 Bull. N.Y. Zool. Soc. 38 159/1 The Standard-wing is a curious rather than a beautiful bird. 1992 Emu 92 72 (title) The Standardwing Bird of Paradise Semioptera wallacii (Paradisaeidae), its ecology, behaviour, status and conservation. 2011 Guardian (Nexis) 26 Mar. (Final ed.) (Review section) 12 For the Beagle series, he [sc. Redmond O'Hanlon] sets out on another quest, to Bacan Island, Indonesia, to spot the emerald-breasted bird of paradise known as Wallace's standardwing. < as lemmas |
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