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yellow-bird|ˈjɛləʊbɜːd|
Name for several birds having yellow plumage; now esp. the North American goldfinch or thistle-bird, Chrysomitris (Spinus, Carduelis) tristis, and the North American summer warbler (distinctively called summer yellowbird), Dendrœca æstiva.
a1705Ray Syn. Avium (1713) 80 Regulus non cristatus Aldrov[andi]... The small Yellow-Bird. 1738E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 19 The yellow Bird, from Bengall... This Bird was about the bigness of a Fieldfare. 1792W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 290 P[arus] luteus; the summer yellow bird. 1860S. F. Baird, etc. Birds N. Amer. 421 Chrysomitris Tristis. Yellow Bird; Thistle Bird. 1884E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Mar. 617/2 The American gold-finch, or yellow-bird. 1896Newton Dict. Birds 1056 Yellowbird is the North-American Siskin..and perhaps more than one of the Mniotiltidæ. 1898Atlantic Monthly LXXXII. 495/2 The summer yellow-bird, which pushes its hardy spring flight beyond the Arctic circle. |