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单词 yellow-belly flycatcher
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yellow-belly flycatcher
8. Originally: †the great crested flycatcher, Myiarchus crinitus, a tyrant flycatcher native to eastern and central North America, which has a small crest, brown upperparts, a grey breast and throat, and a yellow belly (obsolete). In later use (more fully yellow-belly flycatcher): the yellow-bellied flycatcher, Empidonax flaviventris (now rare).
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1847 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 20 330 Tyrannus crinitus, Linn. (Yellow-belly.)..This bird..feeds on insects and larvæ; has none of the twitter belonging or peculiar to the flycatcher tribe.
1878 Forest & Stream 24 Oct. 239/1 Mr. Osborne also related his experience in finding the nest and eggs of the yellow-belly fly-catcher (Empidonax flaviventris) at Grand Menan, N. B.
1890 B. Torrey in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 250/2 In his notes, the yellow-belly may be said to take after both the least flycatcher and the wood pewee.
1919 H. Harris Birds of Kansas City Region in Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 23 280 The Yellow-belly may not be as rare during migration as the few records seem to show.
1991 S. D. Robbins Wisconsin Birdlife ii. 378/1 As a breeding bird the Yellow-belly has long since been gone from southern Wisconsin.
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