Definition of Piping crow

1. Noun. Crow-sized black-and-white bird; a good mimic often caged.

Exact synonyms: Gymnorhina Tibicen, Piping Crow-shrike
Generic synonyms: Australian Magpie
Group relationships: Genus Gymnorhina, Gymnorhina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piping Crow

pipeworker
pipeworkers
pipeworks
pipewort
pipewort family
pipeworts
piphat
pipidae
pipier
pipiest
pipiness
pipinesses
piping
piping bag
piping crow (current term)
piping crow-shrike
piping down
piping guan
piping hot
piping plover
pipingly
pipings
pipis
pipistrel
pipistrelle
pipistrelles
pipistrels
pipit
pipits

Literary usage of Piping crow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated: Published by Edward Turner Bennett (1831)
"... THE piping crow. BARITA TIBICEN. Cuv. THE genus Cracticus of Vieillot is placed by M. Cuvier, under the name of Barita, in the family of Shrikes, ..."

2. Supplementary Papers (1893)
"The palate of the ripe chick of a piping- crow superimposed on that of ... Gymnorhina [or Australian piping-crow] is merely a more highly specialised, ..."

3. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"The best-known member of this genus is the black-backed piping crow (G. tibicen), which is universally distributed over New South Wales; the white-backed ..."

4. Flags of the World by Byron McCandless, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1917)
"The badge of that State consists of a yellow field bearing the piping crow displayed. 916. The celebrated black swan, which was first discovered on western ..."

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