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单词 pintail chicken
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pintail chicken
b. Any of various other birds having a pointed tail, esp. (a) = pin-tailed sandgrouse n. at pin-tailed adj. Compounds; (b) North American (more fully pintail chicken) = pin-tailed grouse n. (b) at pin-tailed adj. Compounds; (c) U.S. regional the ruddy duck, Oxyura jamaicensis; (d) (in full Bahama pintail, white-cheeked pintail) a brown duck of the Caribbean and northern South America, Anas bahamensis, in which the throat and sides of the head are white.
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1879 C. R. Conder Tent Work Palestine II. 99 We also saw large coveys of the sand-grouse or pintail.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pintail,..2. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida... 3. The sharp-tailed or pin-tailed grouse, Pediœcetes phasianellus, more fully called pintail chicken.
1894 Outing 24 385/2 We found the pin-tails more frequently on the sides of hills, about the coolies in the rolling prairie.
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. I. 152 Ruddy Duck... [Also called] Pintail.
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. II. 27 Sharp-tailed Grouse... [Also called] Pin-tail.
1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xx. 238 In addition to the birds mentioned there are..Bahama pintails, [etc.].
1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 46 White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis.
1994 Ontario out of Doors Sept. 94/1 (advt.) Hunt teal, wood duck, ringneck, Bahama pintail, [etc.].
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