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Definition of Blue darter
1. Noun. Bluish-grey North American hawk having a darting flight.
Generic synonyms: Hawk
Group relationships: Accipiter, Genus Accipiter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Darter
Literary usage of Blue darter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the by David Starr Jordan (1878)
"P. spectabilis, Ag. STRIPED blue darter. Like the preceding and equally brilliant,
... SOUTHERN blue darter. Cheeks scaly above—not entirely naked ..."
2. Birds that Every Child Should Know: The East, by Neltje Blanchan [pseud by Nellie Blanchan (De Graff) Doubleday, Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"The female Cooper's hawk is about nineteen inches long and her mate a finger-length
smaller, but not nearly so small as the little blue darter, ..."
3. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1890)
"blue darter. Rainbow Darter. Soldier-fish. Body robust; back elevated; head large,
compressed ; neck, cheeks and breast usually naked ..."
4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1885)
"... var. spectabile Ag. Soldier-fish, Rainbow Darter, blue darter. Kansas river.
Common. E. Whipplei, Girard. Arkansas river. Perhaps doubtful in Kansas. ..."
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