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单词 bell-bird
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bell-birdn.

Brit. /ˈbɛlbəːd/, U.S. /ˈbɛlˌbərd/
Etymology: < bell n.1 + bird n.
A name given to two distinct birds, the Procnias carunculata or Campanero of Brazil, and the Myzantha melanophrys of Australia, both remarkable for their clear ringing notes. Also used as the name of various birds with a clear ringing call.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Cotingidae (cotinga) > genus Procnias (bell-bird)
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araponga1824
campanero1825
toll1825
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Meliphagidae (honey-eater) > anthornis melanura (bell-bird)
bell-bird1802
makomako1848
korimako1855
mocker1871
moko-moko1871
moki-mok1884
New Zealand bell-bird1884
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Meliphagidae (honey-eater) > other or miscellaneous types of
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blue eye1841
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stitch-bird1873
soldier-bird1881
1802 Barrington's Hist. New S. Wales viii. 284 The cry of the bell-bird seems to be unknown here.
1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. 117 The celebrated Campanero of the Spaniards, called..bell-bird by the English.
1835 W. Wordsworth Stanzas Power of Sound ii, in Yarrow Revisited 312 Toll from thy loftiest perch, lone Bell-bird, toll.
1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. 23 The melodious chimes of the bell-bird were especially distinct.
a1848 E. Stanley Fam. Hist. Birds (1854) iv. 60 The Bell-Bird's note was borne upon the wind.
1865 Ibis 1 90 The Costa-Rican Bell-bird (Chasmorhynchus tricarunculatus).
1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxv. 470 To this group [the Honey-eaters] belong many..species, such as that which produces a sound like the tinkling of a bell and is in consequence called the Bell-bird.
1882 W. L. Buller Man. Birds N.Z. 11 Anthornis melanura..Bell-bird. Mocker. Kori~mako. Makomako.
1887 W. L. Buller Man. Birds N.Z. (ed. 2) I. 92 Anthornis Melanocephala. (Chatham-Island Bell-Bird.)
1903 Westm. Gaz. 28 Oct. 12/2 The Banded Bell-Bird..(Cotinga cincta).
1966 G. Durrell Two in Bush i. 45 A Bellbird..entertained us with a concert of wonderful, flute-like notes, wild, liquid and beautiful.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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