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Elanus

noun
1.
A genus of small kites of both Old and New Worlds.  Synonym: genus Elanus.



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"Elanus" Quotes from Famous Books



... fortunately stumbled on another little pool of water in a lateral creek about half way. After breakfasting here, we moved leisurely on, and reached our destination at half-past five, p.m. Sullivan shot a beautiful and new hawk (ELANUS SCRIPTUS, Gould), which does not appear to extend farther south than where we here met it, although it wanders over the whole of the north-west interior as far as we went. There were some beautiful plants also growing in the bed of the creek; but we had previously met with so few ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt



Words linked to "Elanus" :   Accipitridae, bird genus, white-tailed kite, family Accipitridae



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