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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ornithology, cowled or hooded; masked; having the front of the head covered, as if by a mask, with marked color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Hooded; cowled.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology, rare hooded; cowled

Etymologies

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Latin capistratus, past participle of capistrare halter.

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