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Whale-bird. World English Historical Dictionary

Whale-bird. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whale-bird Name of various birds that inhabit the places where whales are found, or which feed on their oil or offal: (a) a petrel of the genus Prion or Procellaria; (b) the turnstone, Strepsilas interpres; (c) the red or grey phalarope; (d) the ivory gull.

1 1768.  Phil. Trans., LX. 117. Another bird, not much unlike a quail, which they call here the whale-bird, from its feeding on the offal of those fish.

2 1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Whale-bird, a beautiful little bird seen hovering in flocks over the Southern Ocean.

3 1875.  Melliss, St. Helena, 200. The Whale Bird (Procellaria glacialoides).

4 1879.  Bulletin U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 15. 85. Phalaropus fulicarius,… ‘Shatgak,’ Cumberland Eskimo. ‘Whale-bird,’ or ‘Bowhead Bird,’ of whalemen.

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