| 单词 | pheasant coucal |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspheasant coucal pheasant coucal n. a coucal, Centropus phasianinus, of New Guinea and northern Australia, which resembles a pheasant in having brown wings and a long brown tail. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > member of genus Centropus (coucal) > centropus phasianus (pheasant-coucal) pheasant coucal1801 pheasant cuckoo1827 swamp pheasant1847 1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 137 Pheasant C[oucal]. This is a beautiful species..the whole of the back and wings varied with rufous, yellow, brown, and black, somewhat similar to a Pheasant or Woodcock. 1944 A. Russell Bush Ways ii. 17 The cuckoos, with the single exception of the pheasant-coucal, build no nests of their own. 1995 Amer. Naturalist 145 310 Large carnivores (raptors and the pheasant coucal..) are omitted from these analyses because, as a group, they appear to behave quite differently. < as lemmas |
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