1611 R. Cotgrave Gouttreuse, a certain white, long-beaked, and tonglesse bird [i.e. a pelican].
1778 E. M. da Costa 133 Long-beaked Whelkes.
1876 C. Darwin x. 371 Long-beaked humming-birds visit the flowers of Brugmansia.
1957 E. C. Ogden in (rev. ed.) 149 Nutlet very small, triangular, long-stalked and long-beaked.
2005 D. Cruickshank 59 The long-beaked echidna..became extinct around 15,000 years ago.