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cisne negro
Cygnus atratus, a swan with black plumage and a red bill which is endemic to Australia.
If you tell me that there is or that there is not a black swan or a white raven, I want to know where you mean; and that you can only show me,—no description will answer the purpos…
Mankind were wrong, it seems, in concluding that all swans were white: are we also wrong, when we conclude that all men's heads grow above their shoulders, and never below, in spit…
mirlo blanco
Something believed impossible or not to exist, especially if an example is subsequently found; also, something extremely rare; a rara avis.
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