bateleur
(ˈbat(ə)lœːr)
[Fr., = mountebank, juggler.]
In full bateleur eagle: a short-tailed African and Arabian eagle, Terathopius (Helotarsus) ecaudatus. Cf. berghaan, dassie-vanger 1.
| 1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Africa 306 The largest birds were the Batteleur eagle and the Buceros. a 1867 K. J. Andersson Notes Birds Damara Land (1872) 10 Helotarsus ecaudatus..Rufous-backed Bateleur eagle. 1895 Lydekker R. Nat. Hist. IV. 211 The handsomely coloured bird known as the bateleur eagle..differs from the sea-eagles..by the extreme shortness of its tail. 1940 V. Pohl Bushveld Adventures xi. 233 A couple of bateleur eagles that were circling round a spot. 1955 K. A. Thompson Great House iii. 106 The trousered bateleurs. |