| 单词 | tropic crow |
| 释义 | > as lemmastropic crow tropic crow n. now historical (probably) the Hawaiian crow, Corvus hawaiiensis, which is now extinct in the wild in Hawaii and survives only in captivity. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > other types of hooded crow?a1513 tropic crow1781 temia1809 fish-crow1812 scapulated raven1869 pied crow1897 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 384 Tropic Crow. Length twelve inches and a half..From O-wy-hee..in the South Seas. 1810 Encycl. Londinensis V. 239/2 Corvus Tropicus, the Tropic Crow: length twelve inches and a half; bill broad at the base, and the tips of both mandibles notched. 1959 Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Historical Ser. 1 324 Latham's Tropic Crow, Corvus tropicus Gmelin, 1788,..was said to be a bird from Hawaii with no crest or rackets and with a rounded tail. 2006 M. J. Walters Sacred Raven vi. 46 Latham's descriptions of the Tropic Crow had struck ornithologists as peculiar. < as lemmas |
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