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The British naturalist Gilbert White was one of the first people to separate the similar-looking common chiffchaff, willow warbler and wood warbler by their songs, as detailed in 1789 in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, [2] but the common chiffchaff was first formally described as Sylvia collybita by French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1817 in his Nouveau Dictionnaire ...
The winnowing-fan (λίκνον [líknon], also meaning a "cradle") featured in the rites accorded Dionysus and in the Eleusinian Mysteries: "it was a simple agricultural implement taken over and mysticized by the religion of Dionysus," Jane Ellen Harrison remarked. [1]
There are four species of bird named chiffchaff: . Common chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita (also often commonly referred to as the chiffchaff); Iberian chiffchaff, Phylloscopus ibericus
Common chiffchaffs (of the nominate race) and Siberian chiffchaffs do not recognize each other's songs. [9] [10] Pending resolution of the status of the form fulvescens, which is found where the ranges of common chiffchaff (of the race abietinus) and Siberian chiffchaff connect and may [11] or may not [10] be a hybrid between these, tristis is maintained in P. collybita by most checklists.
These include the grammatical custom (inherited from Latin) of using a grammatically masculine plural for a group containing at least one male; the use of the masculine definite article for infinitives (e.g. el amar, not la amar); and the permissibility of using Spanish male pronouns for female referents but not vice versa (e.g. el que includes ...
Chaff as a waste product from grain processing leads to a metaphorical use of the term, to refer to something seen as worthless. In the Bible, such use is found in Job 13:25, [13] Isaiah 33:11, [14] Psalm 83:13-15, [15] and other places.
For Wesley and Simon, they are lucky enough to join a cat-friendly home where three other cats already rule the roost, including a senior calico who has apparently spent a lot of time hiding in ...
A winnowing fork. This verse describes wind winnowing, the period's standard process for separating the wheat from the chaff. Ptyon, the word translated as winnowing fork in the World English Bible is a tool similar to a pitchfork that would be used to lift harvested wheat up into the air into the wind.