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araponga|ærəˈpɒŋgə|
Also arapunga.
[F., f. Pg.]
The campanero or bell-bird of South America.
The name arapunga/araponga was established in R. P. Lesson's Traité d'Ornithologie (1831).
1824H. E. Lloyd tr. Spix & Martius' Trav. in Brazil I. ii. ii. 247 Above all these strange voices, the metallic tones of the uraponga sound from the tops of the highest trees, resembling the strokes of the hammer on the anvil, which..according to the position of the songster, fill the wanderer with astonishment. 1881Imp. Dict., Arapunga. 1910Encycl. Brit. IV. 443/2 Species having strident voices and peculiar unmusical calls, like..the araponga (Chasmorhynchus nudicollis). 1951J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle iii. ii. 62 An araponga, a tall bird with a screeching note. |