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▪ I. ˈredpoll1, -pole
[f. red a. + pole poll.]
1. A name given to several species of the family Fringillidæ characterized by bright red feathers on the crest.
a. The greater redpoll, the male of the common linnet in summer plumage.
b. The lesser or common redpoll, formerly often kept as a cage-bird, Linota rufescens or ægiothus linaria.
c. The mealy or stone redpoll, ægiothus canescens, a somewhat rare winter visitant to the British Islands. Also, the allied American species (æ. exilipes).
1738E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 70 The Red Pole is a very small, but an exceeding pretty feathered Bird. 1772Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXII. 312 There is another bird,..called a redpoll, which is taken in numbers during the Michaelmas and March flights by the London bird⁓catchers. 1811Wilson Amer. Ornith. IV. 42 Lesser Red⁓Poll. 1831Rennie Montagu's Ornith. Dict. 298, I [Bechstein] hope to shew..that our common Linnet, the greater Redpole, and..the Mountain Linnet, are one and the same species. 1839Audubon Ornith. Biog. V. 88 On two occasions I have seen the Mealy Redpoll associated with the American Siskin. 1882H. Lansdell Through Siberia I. 202 Flocks of redpoles and shore-larks, bramblings and wagtails. 1894Newton Dict. Birds 773 The geographical range of the Lesser Redpoll is apparently limited to Western Europe... On the other hand, the Mealy Redpoll..is much more widely distributed.
attrib.1831Wilson, etc. Amer. Ornith. IV. 112 We..can perceive scarcely any resemblance..to a similar state of the red-poll finch. 1882J. Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club IX. No. 3. 561 The Redpole Linnet arrives with them.
2. yellow red-poll, an American warbler, Dendræca palmarum; the palm-warbler. Also attrib.
1764G. Edwards Glean. Nat. Hist. II. iii. 295 The Yellow Red-pole. 1811Wilson Amer. Ornith. IV. 19 Yellow Red-Poll Warbler, Sylvia Petechea. Ibid., Length of the Yellow Red-poll five inches, extent eight.
So red-polled a., red-headed.
1787Wolcott (P. Pindar) Instr. Celebr. Laureat 42 Large red-poll'd, blowzy, hard, two-handed jades.
▪ II. ˈredpoll2, -polled
pl. Red-haired polled cattle. Also attrib.
1891J. Macdonald Stephens's Bk. Farm (ed. 4) III. vi. 416/1 The Norfolk and Suffolk Red Polled breed stands highest for dairying purposes. The Red Polls are handsome symmetrical animals of medium size. 1895Westm. Gaz. 29 Mar. 7/2 [The celebrated..herd of Red-Polled cattle.] The Duke of York is getting together a large and choice herd of Red-Polls. 1896Daily News 8 Dec. 5/1 The breed cup for red-polleds. 1898Rider Haggard in Longm. Mag. Oct. 508 Red-polls have many advantages. Ibid., Pedigree animals of the Norfolk red-poll breed. 1949Caribbean Q. I. ii. 36 A small herd of grade red poll cattle was maintained. 1970G. E. Evans Where Beards wag All viii. 95, I have kept Red Polls, because they are harmless, and the Suffolk breed for a Suffolk man. |