单词 | blackcap |
释义 | > as lemmasblackcap c. Now in form blackcap. A greyish-brown warbler found chiefly in Europe, Sylvia atricapilla (family Sylviidae), of which the male has a black cap and the female a reddish-brown one, and which is noted for its warbling song. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia atricapilla (blackcap) fig-bird1576 snap-fig1603 beccafico1621 fig-pecker1647 fig-finch1655 black cap1678 fig-eater1678 nettle-monger1712 mockingbird1883 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 226 (heading) The Black-cap: Atricapilla seu Ficedula, Aldrov. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 101 The black-cap is a bird of passage, leaving us before winter. 1774 G. White Let. 2 Sept. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 103 The black-cap has..a full, sweet, deep, loud, and wild pipe. 1844 Zoologist 2 620 Blackcap... It is frequently called the ‘Kentish nightingale’, which epithet it deserves. 1899 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin (1900) 3/2 The blackcap has a climacteric note, just before his song collapses and dies. 1945 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 6 May in War Diaries (2001) 687 Put up hides for a nightingale, bullfinch, and black cap's nest. 1974 W. Condry Woodlands v. 64 A tiny number of blackcaps and chiffchaffs occasionally winter in Britain, mainly in the south. 2001 BBC Wildlife Sept. 77/2 The group includes such familiar birds as the blackcap, whitethroat and garden warbler. < as lemmas |
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