单词 | spot-winged stare |
释义 | > as lemmasspot-winged stare 2. With distinguishing word or words: any of various other birds resembling or related to the starling (or formerly thought to be so). Now only in spotted-winged stare or spot-winged stare, the spot-winged starling of southern Asia, Saroglossa spiloptera. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae > genus Sturnus stareOE starlingOE OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 72 Turdella, se mare stær. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5v As the Thrush,..black-bird, saxatile,..double-coloured, roselike, brasilian and indian, stare. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. xix. 196 Bontius his Indian Stare. [L. Sturnus Indicus Bontii.] 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 10 Silk Stare. Size of a Starling... The plumage in general glossy and silky. 1787 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. I. 137 Silk Stare... Length eight inches. Bill purplish red, the end dusky. 1808 New & Compl. Amer. Encycl. IV. 159/2 The Religiosa, the lesser grakle, or Indian stare, is about the size of a blackbird, the bill an inch and a half long, and of an orange colour. 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VII. 173 Cape Stare, Sturnus Capensis. 1920 Avicultural Mag. 11 187 Jerdon, who calls the bird the ‘Spotted-winged Stare’, places it between the Starlings and the Grackles, or Hill-Mynahs. 1979 E. W. Cronin Arun ii. 23 At dawn, a flowering silk cotton tree will be alive with flocks of racquet-tailed drongos, spot-winged stares, and mynas feeding on the new blossoms. 2002 B. Grewal et al. Photogr. Guide Birds India 481 Spot-winged Starling... Saroglossa spiloptera (Spotted-winged Stare, Spot-winged Stare). < as lemmas |
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