tataupa

tataupa

English

Etymology

Tupian.[1]

Noun

tataupa (plural tataupas)

1. A South American tinamou (Crypturellus tataupa).
   • 1901, Bureau of the American Republics (Washington, D.C.), United States of Brazil: A geographical sketch, page 52:

     Psophia and palamedea species also aid in feeding these Indians, as likewise tataupas, ypacahas, yahamis, mbatuitis, and chloritos forms. They eat nearly every feathered creature, however, from a gull upward, deriving great advantages ...

   • 1921, The Avicultural Magazine, page 89:

     In the case of the Tataupas bred in 1904, no less than fourteen young birds were reared in the one season from a single female and two males. When male No. 1 commenced to incubate his batch of four pink eggs, the female was transferred ...

References

• tataupa in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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