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单词 plough-bird
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plough-bird
plough-bird n. Obsolete (a) New Zealand the black-fronted tern, Sterna albistriata, a New Zealand bird the breeding adult of which has a black cap; (b) U.S. the yellow-breasted chat, Icteria virens (family Parulidae), a large warbler found in thickets and brush in North and Central America.
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1888 Ibis 6 45 The local name of this bird, in the neighbourhood of Cape Kidnappers, is ‘Plough Bird’, or ‘Plough Boy’, given on account of its habit of following the farmer's plough.
1898 J. Fox Kentuckians 105 ‘There are mountain birds up here, too’—a polyglot chat was chuckling. ‘Hear that? My Father used to call that the “plough-bird”.’
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