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/kəˈhuː/ Ornithology.
A bird of the Bermudas, a species of Shearwater (generally understood to be Puffinus obscurus) formerly found in immense numbers, but now nearly exterminated.
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1615 L. Hughes Let. in J. H. Lefroy Mem. Bermudas (1879) II. 578 About the middle of October, Birds which we call cahouze and Pimlicoes come in... When the Cahouze time is out,..noddies and sandie birds come in.
1623 J. Smith Hist. Bermudas in Gen. Hist. Virginia 180 Coupers Ile, where were [anno 1614] such infinite numbers of the Birds called Cahowes.
1623 J. Smith Hist. Bermudas in Gen. Hist. Virginia 171 The Cahow is a Bird of the night, for all the day she lies hid in holes in the Rocks.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. ix. vi. 1740 (margin) They call it of the cry which it maketh a Cohow.
1671 S. Clarke True Acct. Four Chiefest Plant. 22 in Geogr. Descr. (new ed.) The Cohow, is so called from his voice, a night bird, being all day hid in the Rockes.
1859 J. M. Jones Naturalist in Bermuda 93–6 Mr. Hardie learned in June 1847 ‘that the Cahow was still known by its old name’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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