单词 | rock bunting |
释义 | > as lemmasrock bunting rock bunting n. either of two Old World buntings of the genus Emberiza (family Emberizidae) inhabiting rocky mountainsides: †(a) the cinnamon-breasted bunting, E. tahapisi, of Africa (obsolete); (b) a Eurasian bunting, E. cia, having a grey head with black streaks and a brown body. ΚΠ 1875–84 R. B. Sharpe Layard's Birds S. Afr. 490 Fringillaria tahapisi (Smith). Rock Bunting. 1910 A. Chapman & W. J. Buck Unexplored Spain xxxv. 348 But the sun shone bright, and from a poplar softly warbled a rock-bunting. 1957 Behaviour 10 192 In the Snow Bunting and Rock Bunting also, the tail-flick has been more conservative than the gait. 2008 Sunday Express (Nexis) 17 Aug. 18 Species such as rock sparrow, rock bunting and the grey-headed woodpecker..could all find refuge here. < as lemmas |
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