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单词 yellow wagtail
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yellow wagtail
yellow wagtail n. either of two migratory Old World wagtails with olive-green upperparts and yellow underparts, Motacilla flava (more fully western yellow wagtail) and M. tschutschensis (more fully eastern yellow wagtail). M. tschutschensis was previously classified as a subspecies of M. flava. [Compare Old English geolewearte , a bird name of uncertain sense, probably denoting a kind of wagtail (see quot. OE at Compounds 2b(a)).]
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1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. 151 Yellow Wagtail.
1784 J. Aikin Cal. Nature 28 Other birds, which are seen amongst us only in the warmer months, as the redstart, whitethroat, and yellow wagtail, appear in April.
1875 Ipswich Jrnl. 9 Oct. 3/5 (advt.) To be sold... All healthy birds and in good condition, 24 Canaries,..1 male Yellow Wagtail, and 1 male Turquoisine Parrakeet.
1948 Condor 50 66 I finally found the nest of the pair of Yellow Wagtails which had scolded us so much when we walked by that place.
2010 D. T. Parkin & A. G. Knox Status of Birds Brit. & Ireland 337 Molecular data support the separation of Yellow Wagtail into two species, ‘Western Yellow WagtailM. flava, and ‘Eastern Yellow WagtailM. tschutschensis.
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