red-leggedadj.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Perdrix gaille,..the great browne-bodied, and red-legd Partridge, the French Partridge.

1704 Nat. Hist. ii, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 186 The red-legg'd Duck. The Feet of these when roasted dye both Hands and Linnen red.

a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) i. 193 The red~legged Crane.

1754 M. Catesby & G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Carolina (rev. ed.) I. 30 The red-leg'd Thrush, Turdus viscivorus plumbeus.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) i. 82 Large red-legged cranes, three feet high, with black and white wings.

1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London ix The ‘cussed’ redshank or pool-snipe was dubbed the red-legged yelper.

1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood i. 45 Yes, but I ken a lot of bumbee's nests, baith the red-legged and the yellow-legged kind.

1931 Discovery Mar. 87/1 Black-headed gulls, the little red-legged, red-beaked sea birds so familiar to Londoners.

1959 E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Isles I. 235 N[ecrobius] rufipes..popularly known as the Red Legged Ham Beetle.

1979 R. S. Peffer Watermen 98 They gathered in clusters on both sides of the walk mumbling words like ‘hefty sooks’, and ‘red-legged jimmies’—crab lore set spinning by the spring weather.

2005 D. Ratcliffe Lapland vi. 166 One possibility is that these red-legged birds are subadults.

1817 W. S. Rose Lett. from N. Italy (1819) xxv. 261 Fortunately a red-legged prelate dropped in.

1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. xv. 111 The motley troop of cardinals and red-legged servitors passed out.

1862 Southern Literary Messenger Jan. 63/1 All had to go to London, and testify against every red legged gillie in the expedition.

1915 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 45 25 Young members of the red-legged Shamowa clan must not use henna..at times.

1962 J. Updike Pigeon Feathers 27 The bird-tongued, red-legged girls who composed half its student body.

2007 Daily Express (Nexis) 3 Mar. 67 First the [grape] treaders stomp up and down—called the corte—then dance, red-legged, to accordion music.

1831 Rep. Auditors Accts. Zool. Soc. 1830 20 Red-legged Chough.

1920 Times 5 Apr. 3/4 The red-legged chough, which, thanks to protection, can once more be seen turning somersaults in mid-air over the cliffs of North Cornwall.

1995 Daily Tel. 10 May 9/8 The red-legged chough is extinct in England, and it had not been seen in the area for 95 years until two pairs began nesting in the late 1980s.

1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. ii. 228 Crow..Red Legged... The legs and bill are of a bright orange, inclining to red.

1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 139 These precipices are frequented by the red-legged crow.

1906 J. A. Harvie-Brown Fauna of Tay 144 The old local name of the Chough in most parts of Scotland..was ‘Red-legged Crow’ or ‘Daw’.

1996 Eng. Hist. Rev. 111 312 Throughout the early modern period the cliffs of western Britain were frequented by the red-legged crow (Pyrrhocorax), then known as the ‘Cornish Chough’.

1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VI. 53 Red-legged Falcon.

1857 Wilts. Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. 3 347 The Red-footed or Red- legged Falcon..as it is variously called; the principal distinguishing characteristics being the red colour of the legs and feet.

1995 Jrnl. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 92 418 (title) Occurrence of red-legged falcon, Falco vespertinus Linn. at Aakkulam, Kerala State.

1917 J. Grinnell & T. I. Storer in Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 17 148 Rana aurora aurora... Oregon Red-legged Frog... Rana aurora draytonii... California Red-legged Frog.

1953 H. S. Zim & H. M. Smith Reptiles & Amphibians v. 132 The large Red-legged Frog of the West..is an even dark brown or olive above, and colored below as its name indicates.

1995 Sci. Amer. Apr. 60/3 Before the turn of the century, red-legged frogs (R. aurora) were probably overharvested as a food source in Oregon and California.

1835 Metrop. Mag. 13 89 Only one species of web-footed birds—the red-legged gannet—roosts upon trees.

1890 G. J. Broinowski Birds Austral. I. Pl. 5 In its habits generally and in its mode of procuring food, the Red-legged Gannet resembles the other members of the tribe.

1991 G. Pizzey Field Guide Birds Austral. 48 Red-footed Booby Sula sula. Other names: Red-footed or Red-legged Gannet.

1848 Cultivator Aug. 257/1 What is commonly called the red-legged grasshopper..prevails extensively and is often very destructive to vegetation.

1867 Amer. Naturalist 1 271 The Red-legged Grasshopper..has been for several years immensely destructive in the far West, especially in Kansas.

1925 G. W. Herrick Man. Injurious Insects 328 The red-legged grasshopper..injures corn, oats, rye, timothy, blue grass, and soy beans.

1997 Jrnl. Ecol. 85 647 Adults of the red-legged grasshopper are repelled by the volatiles emitted from the [leaf] glands.

1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 381 Red-legged Gull, Larus cinerarius.

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Gull—Black-Headed The Red-legged Gull of authors is only this bird before it is arrived to maturity.

1913 H. K. Swann Dict. Eng. & Folk-names Brit. Birds 192 Red-legged Gull: The Black-headed Gull. (Ireland.).

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 299 We take this to be the bird the French call Chevalier aux pieds rouges, the red-leg'd Horseman.

1734 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds II. 63 The Totanus or Red-leg'd Horseman.

1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 91 (heading) Redshank. Red-legged Horseman, Pool Snipe, or Sand Cock. (Scolopax Calidris, Lin.).

1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London xiii. 256 The redshank, pool-snipe,..red-leg, red-legged horseman.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 315 Red-legged Kittiwake. Bill very short, stout, wide and deep at the base with very convex culmen; its color clear yellow; feet coral-red.

1983 Ecology 64 729/1 Only the Red-legged Kittiwake had a major proportion of nests completely covered by overhanging rock.

1997 Bird Conservation Internat. 7 167 Red-legged Kittiwakes have declined in the Pribilof Islands by approximately 50% since the mid-1970s.

1841 Rep. Insects Massachusetts, Injurious to Vegetation 141 The red-legged locust was first described by De Geer from specimens sent to him from Pennsylvania.

1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses i. 8 The worker must start with the individual species, or what he recognizes as a species, for example the ordinary red-legged locust.

1986 Callaloo No. 26. 102 The red-legged locusts' black raids upon midwest soybeans.

1862 T. Shapter Climate of South Devon (ed. 2) iv. 134 February.—Several species of gull, amongst these the saddle-back, red-legged mew, the green-legged mew, and large gull.

1890 Cent. Dict. at Red-legged Red-legged mew, same as redshank, 3 [sc. the hooded or black-headed gull].

1943 E. Troughton Furred Animals Austral. (ed. 2) 191 Southern Red-legged Pademelon...Northern Red-legged Pademelon.

1985 Jrnl. Trop. Ecol. 1 374 Other Macropodoidea reported..to eat fruit are the Musky Rat-kangaroo..and Red-legged Pademelon (Thylogale stigmatica).

2006 L. Staker Compl. Guide Care Macropods xix. 165 Red-Legged Pademelons are shy, elusive little creatures.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Perdrix gaille,..the great browne-bodied, and red-legd Partridge, the French Partridge.]

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 167 The Red-leg'd Partridge, Perdix ruffa Aldrov. called in Italy Coturnice and Coturno.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Red-legged Partridge..is not found in England, but is sometimes shot in the islands of Guernsey and Jersey.

1813 Examiner 31 May 344/2 Did you ever see one of us red-legged partridges before?

1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 483/2 Our bird..resembles more closely the red-legged partridge of Europe.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1157 Professor Newton sent me a leg of a red-legged partridge (Caccabis rufa ), which had been wounded.

2006 Bird Watching Aug. 10/1 The Red-legged (or French) Partridge..became well established in the UK in the 1930s.

1868 J. Chapman Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. App. p. 415 Charadrius—or red-legged plover. Common in various parts of Damara Land.

1881 E. E. Frewer tr. E. Holub Seven Years S. Afr. I. 80 A few red-legged plovers and some small bustards..afforded us a meal.

1890 Cent. Dict. at Plover Red-legged plover, the turnstone, Strepsilas interpres.

1931 G. Beet Grand Old Days Diamond Fields 15 Goodly gatherings of the gentle red-legged plover, or ‘kiewietje’ which even yet pays friendly visits to our farmers.

1955 Bull. Mass. Audubon Soc. 39 446 Ruddy turnstone... Red-legged Plover (Mass., R.I.); Redlegs (Mass.).

1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 163 Tringa erythropus...Red-legged Sandpiper.

1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Sandpiper—Red-legged We cannot agree with him that it is Tringa erythropus, from which it differs so essentially in colour, in size, and particularly in the tail, and consequently ought not to bear the above title of Red-legged Sandpiper, the English name adopted in the General Synopsis for the erythropus.

1861 J. C. Atkinson Brit. Birds' Eggs & Nests 84 Common Red-shank—(Totanus calidris)... Red-legged Sandpiper.—One of the most familiar of all our birds to me in my youth.

1888 O. Thomas Catal. Marsupiala & Monotremata in Brit. Mus. 48 Macropus wilcoxi... Red-Legged Wallaby. Like M. stigmaticus in all essentials, but the fur longer and softer, the colours everywhere less brilliant.

1925 Austral. Zoologist 4 73 Macropus wilcoxi. Pademelon or red-legged wallaby.

1981 H. Hannah Together in Jungle Scrub 73 The Paddymelon or Red Legged Wallaby..inhabits the brush and is very common.