| 单词 | magpie lark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmagpie lark magpie lark n. any of several Australian birds of the family Grallinidae, esp. a common black and white stilt-legged bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, which builds a bowl-shaped mud nest (also called peewee). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Grallinidae > grallina cyanoleuca (magpie lark) magpie lark1843 peewee1879 mudlark1898 Murray magpie1940 1843 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) II. Pl. 54 Grallina australis..Magpie Lark, Colonists of New South Wales. 1888 Cassell's Pict. Australasia II. 235 The little magpie-lark. 1931 M. M. Banks Memories Pioneer Days Queensland 73 The magpie-lark is a frequenter of gardens in every part of Australia. 1991 G. Pizzey Field Guide Birds Austral. 397 Magpie Larks are typically birds of river valleys and fringes of freshwaters, but..the Australian species is nevertheless very widely distributed. 1991 R. Howard & A. Moore Compl. Checklist Birds of World (ed. 2) 531/1 Grallinidae (Magpie larks). < as lemmas |
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