| 单词 | white whisky john |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite whisky john ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > genus Lanius > lanius excubitor mattagess1575 French pie1674 grey pie1678 murdering pie1688 white whisky john1772 1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 386 Lanius..Excubitor... Great Butcher-bird... Cinereous Shrike... White Whiskijohn at Hudson's Bay. 1823 J. Franklin Narr. Journey Shores Polar Sea 674 Lanius Excubitor. Great Cinereous Shrike... From its bearing a general resemblance in its plumage to the Canada Jay, it has obtained among the settlers round Hudson's Bay the name of White Whisky-john. 1920 A. Buchanan Wild Life Canada x. 247 The Northern Shrike is called by the Indians the ‘White Wiskajon’, and certainly its light flight among thickets resembles that of the true Wiskajon. < as lemmas |
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