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Fly-catching   Listen
adjective
Fly-catching  adj.  (Zool.) Having the habit of catching insects on the wing.






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"Fly-catching" Quotes from Famous Books



... watched these manoeuvres without having their curiosity excited. It was no new thing to see birds acting in this manner. The jays, and many other birds of the fly-catching kind have this habit, and nothing was thought of it at the moment. Lucien, however, who had watched the bird more narrowly, presently declared to the rest that it was catching the humming-birds, and preying upon them—that each time ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid



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