ruby-crownedadj.
/ˌruːbɪˈkraʊnd/, U.S. /ˌrubiˈkraʊnd/ Of a bird: having a deep red crown.Recorded earliest in ruby-crowned wren n. at Compounds.
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red-headed1556
white-crowned1605
red-capped1648
redhead1738
blue-headed1743
grey-headed1747
black-capped1751
ruby-crowned1758
ruby-headed1811
1758 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. I. 95 The Ruby-crowned Wren.
1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 413 (heading) Ruby-crowned Warbler.
1926 Geogr. Jrnl. 68 380 Ruby-crowned Humming-birds (Eustephanus).
1980 Jrnl. Field Ornithol. 51 147 (table) Ruby-crowned Tanager Tachyphonus coronatus.
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ruby-crowned kinglet n. a kinglet, Regulus calendula, widespread in North America, the male of which has a small deep-red patch on the crown.
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1839 J. J. Audubon Synopsis Birds N. Amer. 83 Regulus Calendula, Linn. Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
1936 R. W. Doane et al. Forest Insects xi. 391 The ruby-crowned kinglets eat many of the female midges as they are on the buds ovipositing.
2004 Bird Watch Canada Winter 15/3 The Lincoln's Sparrow, Myrtle Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet,..and Northern Waterthrush are also fairly well represented at the banding station.
ruby-crowned wren n. now chiefly historical = ruby-crowned kinglet n.
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1758Ruby-crowned wren [see main sense].
1834 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. II. 547 The Ruby-crowned Wren is found in Louisiana and other Southern States, from November until March.
1901 Condor 3 31/2 Additional summer residents..namely:..Ruby-crowned Wren.
1990 Jrnl. Hist. Biol. 23 94 Two of these watercolors survive in the collection of the Boston Athenaeum Library: a yellow redpoll warbler..and a ruby-crowned wren.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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