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Definition of Forktails
1. forktail [n] - See also: forktail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forktails
Literary usage of Forktails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1890)
"The forktails are found in mountain-streams flitting from pool to pool and feeding
on insects which are found on the edge of the water. ..."
2. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"Heart-spotted woodpeckers batter at tree trunks—and there are seven colorful
kinds of pittas, six kinds of broadbills, four forktails, sunbirds, ..."
3. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1863)
"Hill Wagtails, or forktails, with rounded wings, and the tertials not lengthened.
2nd.—Wagtails, with lengthened tertials and ..."
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