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red-breasted, a.
Having a red breast. Chiefly Ornith. In quot. 1609 fig.
red-breasted duck, the white-eyed duck. r. finch = r. grosbeak. r. godwit, the bar-tailed godwit, Limosa rufa. r. goosander = r. merganser. r. goose, Anser or Bernicla ruficollis. r. grosbeak, the rose-breasted grosbeak. r. merganser, Mergus serrator. r. rail, (a) the king-rail, Rallus elegans; (b) the Virginia rail. r. sandpiper, the knot in summer plumage. r. snipe, the dowitcher, Macrorhamphus griseus. r. thrush, the American robin or red-breast.
1609B. Jonson Case is Altered v. i, O [my] fair-feather'd, my red-breasted birds, Come fly with me. 1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 194 The red-breasted Indian Blackbird, perchance the Jacapu of Marggrave. 1729in Dampier's Voy. (ed. 3) III. 406 The Red-breasted Parrot. Ibid. 409 The Red-breasted Woodpecker. 1750G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds III. 138 Red-breasted Godwit. 1776Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4) II. Pl. 93 Red breasted Goosander. Red breasted Merganser. Ibid. 467 Red-breasted Shoveler. 1785― Arct. Zool. II. 335 Red-breasted Thrush. Ibid. 350 Red-breasted Grosbeak. Ibid. 372 Red-breasted Finch. Ibid. 571 Red breasted Goose. 1802Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1831) 580 The red-breasted snipe is a variety of this species [yarwhip]. 1813Wilson Amer. Ornith. VII. 43 Red-breasted Sandpiper, Tringa rufa. 1817T. Forster Nat. Hist. Swallowtribe (ed. 6) 95 Anas Nyroca,..Red-breasted duck. 1835Audubon Ornith. Biog. III. 27 The Great Red-Breasted Rail, or Fresh-Water Marsh-Hen. 1886C. Taylor in Ibis No. 15. 380 The Red-breasted Goose, Bernicla ruficollis, is not now found in Upper Egypt. |