| 单词 | mountain pheasant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain pheasant mountain pheasant n. †(a) Australian a lyrebird (obsolete); (b) U.S. the ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Menuridae (lyre-bird) mockingbird1777 mountain pheasant1800 Menura1802 lyre-bird1834 buln-buln1857 lyre-tailed pheasant1885 1800 Banks Papers in Austral. Nat. Dict. (1988) 404/3 The Mountain Pheasant (as it is called) which I sent by Captain Raven for Lady Banks. 1847 Heads of People (Sydney) 8 May 38 I hear the mountain pheasant whistle o'er the distant hills. 1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 272/1 The ‘lyre-bird’, or mountain pheasant. 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 146 In Virginia and the Carolinas we sometimes hear it [sc. Bonasa umbellus] referred to as the Mountain Pheasant. 1982 R. Elman Hunter's Field Guide 15 Ruffed Grouse... Common & regional names..mountain pheasant. < as lemmas |
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