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Xema ridibundus
Laughing goose (Zo["o]l.), the European white-fronted goose. Laughing gull. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A common European gull (Xema ridibundus); -- called also pewit, black cap, red-legged gull, and sea crow. (b) An American gull (Larus atricilla). In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black. Laughing hyena (Zo["o]l.), the spotted hyena. See Hyena. Laughing jackass (Zo["o]l.), the great brown kingfisher (Dacelo gigas), of Australia; -- called also giant kingfisher, and gogobera. Laughing owl (Zo["o]l.), a peculiar owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of extinction. The name alludes to its notes.
Xema ridibundus
Pewit Pe"wit, n. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit, D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) The lapwing. (b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing. (c) The pewee. [Written also peevit, peewit, pewet.]

Meaning of Ridibundus from wikipedia

- The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small gull that breeds in much of the Palearctic in Europe and Asia, and also locally in smaller...
- P. lessonae (LL) × P. ridibundus (RR) Graf's hybrid frog Pelophylax kl. grafi (PR): Perez's frog P. perezi (PP) × P. ridibundus (RR) or Perez's frog P...
- of the pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) and the marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus). It reproduces by hybridogenesis (hemiclonally). Hybridogenesis implies...
- frog P. ridibundus (RR) and the pool frog P. lessonae (LL), usually excludes the lessonae genome (L) and generates gametes of the P. ridibundus (R). In...
- esculentus (edible frog): P. lessonae × P. ridibundus, P. kl. grafi (Graf's hybrid frog): P. perezi × P. ridibundus P. kl. hispanicus (Italian edible frog)...
- Kehaar is a black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus; pictured with summer plumage)....
- into P. ridibundus. The following species have been variously suggested: Pelophylax bedriagae – Levant water frog (now lumped with P. ridibundus) Pelophylax...
- gull Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus Black-headed gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus Slender-billed gull Chroicocephalus genei Bonaparte's gull Chroicocephalus...
- Pelophylax kl. esculentus (P. lessonae × P. ridibundus)...
- is a hybrid between the pool frog (P. lessonae) and the marsh frog (P. ridibundus). The fire-bellied toads Bombina bombina and B. variegata are similar...