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Sand grouse   /sænd graʊs/   Listen
Sand grouse

noun
1.
Pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young.  Synonym: sandgrouse.






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"Sand grouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... growing irritation and querulousness on her part came a further disenchantment, born of the inability of husband and wife to find a common ground of interest. The habits and migrations of the sand grouse, the folklore and customs of Tartars and Turkomans, the points of a Cossack pony—these were matter which evoked only a bored indifference in Vanessa. On the other hand, Clyde was not thrilled on being informed that ...
— Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches • Saki (H.H. Munro)

... Sand grouse, beautiful little gray birds, with wings like pigeons and remarkable, padded feet, whistled over us as we rolled along the road, and my heart was sick with the thought of the excellent shooting we were missing. ...
— Across Mongolian Plains - A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' • Roy Chapman Andrews

... Fiords. Things outlandish and barbaric appealed to her chiefly when presented under artistic but highly civilised stage management on the boards of Covent Garden, and if she wanted to look at wolves or sand grouse, she preferred doing so in the company of an intelligent Fellow of the Zoological Society on some fine Sunday afternoon in Regent's Park. It was one of the bonds of union and good-fellowship between her husband and herself that each understood and sympathised ...
— When William Came • Saki



Words linked to "Sand grouse" :   painted sandgrouse, family Pteroclididae, Pterocles alchata, pin-tailed sandgrouse, Pterocles indicus, pallas's sandgrouse, columbiform bird, Pteroclididae, pin-tailed grouse, Syrrhaptes paradoxus, sandgrouse



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