| 释义 |
gaulin Jamaica.|ˈgɔːlɪn|
Also 8 gaulding, 9 gawling.
A kind of egret.
a1705Ray Synops. Avium (1713) 189 Ardea alba major nostras. The largest White Gaulding..Ardea cœruleonigra. The Black or Blew Gaulding. 1725Sloane Jamaica II. 314 The largest white Gaulding. Ibid. 315 The Black Gaulding, or blue Gaulding. 1750G. Hughes Barbadoes 70 The Dark-coloured Gaulding..The whole bird is of the Crane kind and generally found feeding upon worms about the edges of ponds. Ibid. The Grey Gaulding. This bird is seldom seen in this island. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 478 The grey crested Gaulding. 1847Gosse Birds Jamaica 335, I have observed in June, the white forms of many Gaulins studding the verdant meadows. 1870Gd. Words June 381 A slate-blue heron, or gawling, as they call him here, rose lazily off a dead bough. |