Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Anglo - Australian name of the shrikes of the genus Pardalotus, as P. punctatus: so called from the marking of the plumage.

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Examples

  • Out of forty perchers eleven are missing — yellow oriole, yellow fig-bird (SPHECOTHERES), black-backed magpie, black-headed diamond-bird, helmeted friar-bird, silver-eye, and the blue, pied, shining, white-eared and spectacled flycatchers.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

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