south-ˈsoutherly Amer.
[Imitative: see first quot.]
The long-tailed duck, Harelda glacialis.
| 1814 A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. VIII. 93 Known along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay by the name of South Southerly, from the singularity of its cry, something imitative of the sound of those words. 1872 Coues N. Amer. Birds 291. 1878 A. M. Ross Catal. Mammals Canada 8/1. |