arapongan.
/arəˈpɒŋɡə/ The campanero or bell-bird of South America. The name arapunga/arapunga was established in R. P. Lesson's Traité d'Ornithologie (1831).
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1824 H. E. Lloyd tr. J. B. von Spix & C. F. P. von Martius Trav. 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.
1881 Imperial Dict. Arapunga.
1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 443/2 Species having strident voices and peculiar unmusical calls, like..the araponga (Chasmorhynchus nudicollis).
1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle iii. ii. 62 An araponga, a tall bird with a screeching note.
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