- An extinct bird - Bird had party ... twice! - Bird in Toledo, dozing - Clumsy extinct bird - Dead as a ... - Double encouragement for dead Mauritian - Extinct bird
- Card game - Game for one - A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit. - A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a
precious stone of any kind set alone. - A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to
many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs
or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled
except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in
draughts. - A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which
formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was
larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for
flight. Called also solitary. - Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus
Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called
also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species (Myadestes sibilans) is
called the invisible bird.
- An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of
large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present
birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs.
Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large
"bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed
and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of
Dinosaur in Appendix.
- Large-beaked bird - Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty
species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the
tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable
for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually
large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The
size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven,
or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead
animals.
- Bird that’s extinct ... immoral even - Extinct bird - Extinct NZ ratite - Flightless bird - Large bird - Moan endlessly about bird that's departed New Zealand - Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless
birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder
Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and
the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New
Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than
the ostrich.
- Emu relative - Large bird - Large flightless bird - A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east
Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed
with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates
overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each
wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs
with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.
- Antipodean animal - Golf score term - Large sea-bird - Large web-footed sea bird - Ocean wandering bird - Ocean-wandering bird - A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which there
are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of
long-continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the
land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.