Cape pigeon

British  

noun

1. Also called: pintado petrel.  a species of seagoing petrel, Daption capensis, with characteristic white wing patches: a common winter visitor off the coasts of southern Africa: family Diomedeidae

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Example Sentences

These birds were black, about the size of a 'Cape Pigeon.'

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See Cape Pigeon, Albatross, &c.Serpent-breeding in Ceylon, i. 362Sesarga, Island of, ii. 624Sheep, statistics of, in New South Wales, iii. 62-64; in Australia at large, 64; estimated value of, 64Ship's complement, crew, officers, and scientific staff, i.

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We lay a southerly course in order to strike the regular Westerly winds, which we might hope to fall in with in the neighbourhood of 40� S., and already we again saw our old friends, the albatross, the cape pigeon, and the stormy petrel, in innumerable quantities.

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It is a well-known fact that if a Cape pigeon, as a certain gull is called, is taken on board, it can fly no more, but walks slowly and stupidly round the deck.

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The doctor had a long string floating overboard from the stern, and every now and then he caught and hauled on board a Cape pigeon, which he had managed by skilful manoeuvring to entangle with his tackle.

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