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Sep 6, 2000 13:32
24 yrs ago
English term

great bird-wings

English to German Science
....butterflies, that Wallace found on these eastern islands were those he called the "pride of the eastern tropics", the great bird-wings.
Proposed translations (German)
0 Goliath-Vogelfalter

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Goliath-Vogelfalter

Research told me it is one of the Ornithoptera = Vogelfalter. I am not entirely sure about the "Goliath-Vogelfalter", it just seems to fit in best with "great". Maybe just "Vogelfalter" will do. See the link below for some drawings of different Ornithoptera butterflies.
The other one mentions the "Goliath".

Eva
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