单词 | woodchat |
释义 | woodchatn. A species of shrike, Lanius rutilus ( rufus, or auriculatus), a rare summer visitor to England; also called woodchat-shrike n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > genus Lanius > lanius senator (woodchat) woodchata1705 woodchat-shrike1781 a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) i. 19 The lesser Ash-coloured Butcher-bird with a white Spot on each Shoulder: The Wood-chat. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 136 The woodchat resembles the [red backed butcher-bird] except in the colour of the back, which is brown and not red as in the other. 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 169 Wood chat shrike. La Pie-griesche rousse. 1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) II. 376 The Woodchat Shrike has occasionally but very rarely been found in England. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 845 The Woodchat,..with a bright bay crown and nape, and the rest of its plumage black, grey and white. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.a1705 |
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