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单词 brush- or wattled turkey
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brush- or wattled turkey
a. Applied with qualification to other birds: A local name of the Bustard; now usually applied to the Australian Bustard, also called native, plain, or wild turkey (Eupodotis (Otis) australis); in Australia also, the brush- or wattled turkey and the scrub-turkey: see these words; in America, Colorado or water-turkey, names for native species of Ibis; water-turkey, the Darter or Snake-bird ( Plotus anhinga); in South Africa, the Bald Ibis ( Gerontius calvus).
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Otididae > member of genus Ardeotis (Australian bustard)
kori bustard1811
gompaauw1838
native, plain, or wild turkey1847
plain turkey1866
plains turkey1914
the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > member of family Anhingidae (darter)
anhinga1769
snake-bird1791
darter1825
serpent bird1870
Colorado or water-turkeya1889
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §435 Termed..the Brush Turkey, on account of the wattles with which its neck is furnished.
1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. VI. pl. 4 Australian Bustard;..Native Turkey.
1852 W. J. Broderip Leaves Note Bk. of Naturalist 139 The brush-turkey belongs to a family of birds..which never incubate, but..leave their eggs to the genial warmth of this half-natural, half artificial mother.
c1868 G. Pryme in Autobiog. Recoll. (1870) xxvi. 386 I have seen Bustards,..which the natives called Wild Turkey,..flying over the Gogmagog Hills.
1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland iv. 122 The plain turkey or bustard (Otis Australasianus),..the male weighing from eighteen to twenty-five pounds.
1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland 124 The scrub turkey (Talegalla Lathami)..much resembles the English hen turkey, though but little larger than a fowl.
a1889 Amer. Cycl. V. 692 This bird [Plotus anhinga] is a constant resident in Florida, and the lower parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia... In these localities it bears the various names of water crow, Grecian lady, water turkey, and cormorant.
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