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单词 talegalla
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Talegallan.

/talɪˈɡalə/
Forms: Also talagalla, talegallus.
Etymology: < modern Latin talegalla (French talégalle), arbitrarily formed by Lesson from Malagasy talèva the porphyrio, and Latin gallus cock, as a name for the species Talegalla cuvieri, the brush-turkey of Western New Guinea, discovered by him.1828 R. P. Lesson Man. d'Ornithol. II. 186 Un oiseau..qui retrace quelques-unes des formes des talèves ou porphyrions. C'est pour rappeler ces analogies que nous avons forgé le mot hybride talégalle.1828 R. P. Lesson Man. d'Ornithol. II. 295 Talève ou poule-sultane. (Talève, nom malgache usité à Madagascar.)
Ornithology.
A genus of megapod birds inhabiting Australia, New Guinea, etc. As English, chiefly applied to T. lathami, the Brush-turkey of Australia.
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1840 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) V. Pl. 77 Talegalla Lathami, Wattled Talegalla; Brush-Turkey of the Colonists.
1840 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) V. Pl. 77 The term Alecturo having been previously employed for a group of Flycatchers, and the present bird possessing all the characters of M. Lesson's genus Talegalla which was published prior to Mr. Swainson's Catheturus, I feel that I ought to accept that appellation... It is known to inhabit various parts of New South Wales from Cape Howe on the south to Moreton Bay in the north.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 4 Mr. Gould describes Talegalla Lathami, or the Wattled Talegalla as a gregarious bird.
1890 C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals 97 The mounds of the jungle-hen are larger than those of the talegalla.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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