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单词 jack crow
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jack crow
jack crow n. Obsolete (a) in the West Indies, the turkey vulture, Cathartes aura; (b) the white-necked rockfowl, Picathartes gymnocephalus, of West Africa.
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1873 A. Gallenga Pearl of Antilles v. 94 Not many birds in sight ; hardly any warbler's note—only everywhere the ‘jack crow’, or Turkey buzzard, a foul and unwieldy vulture.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 23 One of the chief features of Free Town are the jack crows. Some writers say they are peculiar to Sierra Leone.
1905 B. Pullen-Burry Ethiopia in Exile i. 21 The Jack Crows sitting on the housetops with outspread wings fit in with other objects in the tropical landscape.
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