pitangua

Noun

pitangua (plural pitanguas)

1. The boat-billed flycatcher, Megarynchus pitangua.
   • A genus of clamatorial passerine birds of the family Tyrannidæ, or tyrant-flycatchers; the Derbian flycatchers, not including the 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
   • 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.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...