pitangua

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pitanguá, borrowed from Old Tupi pitaûã, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨtawari.

Noun

pitangua (plural pitanguas)

1. The boat-billed flycatcher, Megarynchus pitangua.
   • 1889–1891, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, “Pitangus”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, volume IV, number 16, New York: The Century Co., page 4513, column 3:

     A genus of clamatorial passerine birds of the family Tyrannidæ, or tyrant-flycatchers; the Derbian flycatchers, not including the pitangua.

   • 1895, Wirt Robinson, A Flying Trip to the Tropics: A Record of an Ornithological Visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the Island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the Year 1892, page 43:

     This was probably the pitangua flycatcher (Megarhynchus pitangua). I saw several flocks of parrakeets, — one of which lit near us, — and I started to creep up on them; but they took alarm, and flew before I was within range.

   • 1925, Bulletin of the Pan American Union:

     [...] as the buccos or puff birds, the motmots, and the jacamars. Four of our illustrations are devoted to these birds, with an additional one of the beautiful Central American flycatcher, that is, the pitangua flycatcher (Megarhynchus pitangua) (Linn.) ...

   • 2004, Fe Liza Bencosme, Clark Norton, Adventure Guide to the Dominican Republic, →ISBN, page 29:

     Two new species recently found in the mountains include the pitangua, a night bird that nests in the ground among dry leaves, and the white-winged crossed bill, which lives exclusively in the pine forests of high mountains ...