| 释义 |
Cetti, n.|ˈtʃɛtɪ|
The name of Francesco Cetti (fl. 1776), Italian ornithologist, used in the possessive, as Cetti's warbler, to designate a chestnut-brown southern European warbler, Cettia cetti, resident in Britain since the 1970s and noted for its strikingly loud and abrupt song.
1875L. H. L. Irby Ornithol. Straits Gibraltar 93 Wherever there are thick bushes (generally bramble-brakes close to water) Cetti's Warbler is to be heard. 1904Bull. Brit. Ornithologists' Club XIV. 84 Mr. M. J. Nicoll exhibited a specimen of Cetti's Warbler..shot by a gardener-boy... This was the first authentic occurrence [subsequently discredited] of Cetti's Warbler in Great Britain. 1972Brit. Birds LXV. 496 At least one pair of Cetti's Warblers Cettia cetti bred successfully in southern England. 1983D. Tomlinson in Oddie & Tomlinson Big Bird Race 47 At 03.40 a burst of explosive song from a Cetti's Warbler was a welcome sound. |