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Definition of Piping crow
1. Noun. Crow-sized black-and-white bird; a good mimic often caged.
Generic synonyms: Australian Magpie
Group relationships: Genus Gymnorhina, Gymnorhina
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piping Crow
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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