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a tangent to the rainbird

To: "COG" <>
Subject: a tangent to the rainbird
From: "murray&sandra" <>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:44:06 +1000
If you will permit a tangential thought.   I had thought the "shrike" was a magpie, and the South Australian "piping shrike" was a magpie ....was it in fact intended to be a butcher-bird?
 
Murray Delahoy
 
 
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From: roger curnow [
Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 6:12 PM
To: COG
Subject: [canberrabirds] rainbird

The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.) offers

In Australia: (see quots.).

1860 G. Bennett Gather. of Naturalist 283 The Australian Shrike or Butcher-bird, also called Rain-bird by the colonists (Vanga destructor).
1898 M
orris Austral Eng. s.v., The rain-bird of Queensland and the interior is the great Cuckoo or Channel-bill.

        roger curnow

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