| 单词 | pintado bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspintado bird 2. The Cape petrel, Daption capense, a common seabird of southern oceans having black plumage with white markings. More fully † pintado bird, pintado petrel. Also called Cape pigeon. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Daptian pintado1611 hill pigeon1731 Cape pigeon1798 1611 in S. Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 275 Sea-fowles, to wit Penguins, Guls, Pentados, which are spotted blacke and white. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 19 Pantado Birds (so called from their Colours) flying about them. 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 95 Pintado Birds, as big as Ducks. 1767 Byron's Voy. round World in Hawkesworth's Voy. I. 9 Large flocks of pintadoes, which are somewhat larger than a pigeon, and spotted with black and white. 1844 J. Tomlin Missionary Jrnls. 3 A few of the pintado birds, or Cape pigeons, joined us. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 710 The Cape-Pigeon or Pintado Petrel, Daption capensis, is one that has long been well known. 1989 B. Stonehouse Polar Ecol. (BNC) 153 Several species of petrels including..mottled pintado petrels..breed in cavities on scree slopes and under rocks. 2001 Birds Summer 112/1 So the bird we are supposed today to call a cape petrel is known in the literature variously as pintado, pied petrel and cape pigeon as well as cape petrel. < as lemmas |
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