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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A humming-bird of the genus Schistes, having the bill of peculiar shape, rather thick for a hummer, and suddenly sharppointed. There are 2 species, both Ecuadorian, S. geoffroyi and S. personatus, 3½ inches long. See cut in preceding column.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An Australian crested insessorial bird (
Sphenostoma cristatum ) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
Australian logrunner , Sphenostoma cristatum, that has awedge -shaped bill
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