单词 | tinamou |
释义 | tinamoun. A bird of the genus Tinamus (Latham 1790) or family Tinamidæ, dromæognathous birds, according to Huxley forming the bond of union between the Carinatæ and Ratitæ. The species have an external resemblance to partridges or quails, the place of which they fill on the pampas. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > superorder Ratitae (flightless) > [noun] > member of family Tinamidae tinamou1783 maam1825 martineta1872 partridge1890 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 724 Genus lii. Tinamou. No. 1. Great T[inamou]... Tinamou de Cayenne... This is found in the woods of several parts of South America, particularly of Cayenne and Guiana. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 476/2. 1884 G. Allen in Longman's Mag. Jan. 293 All other modern birds..are linked..to the still earlier toothed ancestral types, by the South American tinamous. 1889 P. L. Sclater & W. H. Hudson Argentine Ornithol. II. 207 The Tinamous constitute one of the most singular and characteristic types of the Neotropical avifauna. 1895 F. W. Headley Struct. & Life Birds xiii. 343 The Spotted Tinnamou, or common Partridge of the Pampas. 1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 964 In 1830 Wagler..placed the Tinamous in the same Order as the Ostrich and its allies. 1902 Q. Rev. Oct. 427 Another some~what less distinguished game-bird..is the tinamu. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1783 |
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