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海外珍禽“倒挂鳥”考 |
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时间:2009-7-24 13:48:33 来源:不详
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【提要】:由於李德裕、蘇軾、吳萊等人的題詠,曾令各被稱之爲“桐花鳳”和“綠毛么鳳”、“羅浮鳳”、“倒挂子”的美豔小禽,當宋、元、明代變得膾炙人口。可是,又緣古人多以“博物學”的角度來描述相關鳥類的形狀、生理,其文字缺少科學性和準確性,遂使它們的勘同成爲困難。本文通過對相關資料的整理、分析,指出:“桐花鳳”乃雀形目花蜜鳥科的“綠喉太陽鳥”,而“綠毛么鳳”、“羅浮鳳”、“倒挂子”,緣其“倒挂”的生態特徵,則爲分類上屬於雀形目極樂鳥科、棲息地爲今分隸于印度尼西亞、巴布亞新幾內亞兩國的伊里安島及其附近區域的“藍極樂鳥”、“紅極樂鳥”。至於中國從“下港”、“浡泥”等國的“貢獻”中得到它們,標明中世紀的東南亞存在著一定規模的“珍禽市場”。 Abstract: The beautiful bird named Phoenix Tree Bird and Little Green Phoenix or Lofu Phoenix or Bird-of-hanging-upside-down had been won universal praises for being mentioned in the poems and compositions by Li Deyu, Su Shi, Wu Lai and so on in Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties. It is difficult to be identified because the writers in the ancient times described the figure and life of the birds from the point of ‘natural history’, and the records always did not seemed exact and scientific. Based on new collection and analysis of the relative materials, this article will point out: The anterior was Green-tailed Sunbird and the latter was Blue Bird-of-paradise or Red Bird-of-paradise that hang upside down sometimes at the branches of the trees and live in Irian Island and the vicinit[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] 下一页 |
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