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Definition of Nankeen bird

Nankeen bird
Nankeen Nan*keen", n. [So called from its being originally manufactured at Nankin, in China.] [Written also nankin.] 1. A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent. 2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring. 3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton. Nankeen bird (Zo["o]l.), the Australian night heron (Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.

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- Nankeen (also called Nankeen cloth) is a kind of pale yellowish cloth originally made in Nanjing, China from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently...
- refers to the colour of nankeen cloth, originally a yellowish cotton from Nankeen or Nanking (modern Nanjing), China. This bird is thought to be a very...
- The nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus) is a heron that belongs to the genus Nycticorax and the family Ardeidae. Due to its distinctive reddish-brown...
- this is hypothesized to avoid predator encounters with Nankeen Kestrel or other ground dwelling bird eating mammals. Bluebonnets will often stick in pairs...
- musk ducks. In the swamps (which have since been filled in) were "The Nankeen bird with one long white feather behind the ear, The rail, The bittern, The...
- and various herons and egrets. Other birds recorded from the IBA in substantial numbers include magpie geese, Nankeen night herons, glossy and Australian...
- and South America. In Australasia it is replaced by the closely related Nankeen night heron (N. caledonicus), with which it has hybridised in the area...
- heron, Butorides striata Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax Nankeen night-heron, Nycticorax caledonicus (extirpated) ****anese night-heron,...
- The Bonin nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus cr****irostris) is an extinct subspecies of the nankeen night heron. The Bonin nankeen night heron...
- heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) at Point Reyes National Seas****, California Nankeen or rufous night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus) at Fremantle Harbour, Western...