Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In ornithology, having a white superciliary streak: as, the white-browed sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys.
Examples
“Vegetation change associated with pastoral impact led to decreases and local extinctions of some bird species, especially those associated with riparian areas, such as white-browed robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa) and purple-crowned fairy-wren.”
“And his grandsons were at the lake, a pair of white-browed boys in down vests, primed for blood sport.”
“This ecoregion contains three endemic bird species: the striped laughingthrush (Garrulax virgatus), brown-capped laughingthrush (Garrulax austeni), and white-browed nuthatch (Sitta victoriae) (Table 1).”
“Greeting," the taskmaster replied, after he had inspected the white-browed servant.”
“But she had no desire to read the eloquent little newspaper essays in praise of labor which are daily written by the white-browed journalistic prophets.”
“Beside the cabin was a garden tended by the bargeman's comely white-browed wife; a dozen daisies and geraniums in two starch-boxes.”
“As the desert sky swam with orange light and a white-browed woman in the seat behind him hummed Musetta's song from "La Bohème" he was homesick for the outlanders, whom he was deserting that he might stick for twenty years in one street and grub out a hundred thousand dollars.”
“Milt merely sat more erect, looked more bland and white-browed and steady.”
“I should prefer to give him Jerdon's name, the white-browed warbler, but for the fact that there are a score or more other warblers with white eyebrows.”
“The white-spotted is distinguishable from the white-browed species by the white eyebrow being much narrower and less conspicuous.”
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
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