brown-tailed rock chat

noun

A bird species, Oenanthe scotocerca, found in parts of Africa from Chad to Ethiopia

Meanings

nounbrown-tailed rock chat (plural brown-tailed rock chats)

plural brown-tailed rock chats

  1. A bird species, Oenanthe scotocerca, found in parts of Africa from Chad to Ethiopia

    red-tailed chat[…] Distinguishing characters: Very similar to the Brown-tailed Rock-Chat, but tail chestnut with central tail feathers and tips of the others blackish brown.

    1952, C.W. Mackworth-Praed, C.H.B. Grant, Birds of Eastern and North Eastern Africa, page 274
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