| 单词 | red lark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred lark red lark n. [with use in South Africa compare Afrikaans rooi lewerk] †(a) chiefly North American the buff-bellied pipit, Anthus rubescens (obsolete); (b) the lark Certhilauda burra, which has a reddish-brown back and is native to an arid area of southern Africa. ΚΠ 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 94 Red-lark. This..bird seems of the size of the last species [sc. tit-lark]. 1817 T. Forster Synoptical Catal. Brit. Birds 13 Alauda Pensylvanica, Alauda Rubra, Red Lark. 1884 Auk 1 167 In 1787 Latham gave the ‘Red Lark’ the binomial name Alauda pensilvanica. 1957 G. R. McLachlan & R. Liversidge Roberts' Birds S. Afr. (rev. ed.) 256 Red Lark. Certhilauda burra. 1997 Ostrich 68 31 (title) Geographical variation in Red Lark Certhilauda burra plumage, morphology, song and mitochondrial DNA haplotypes. < as lemmas |
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