verdinn.
/ˈvəːdɪn/ A small grey tit with a yellow head, Auriparus flaviceps, found in south-western North America.
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1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 217 Another minute species of the titmouse family, the verdin or yellow-headed titmouse.
1903 Atlantic Monthly July 103 The same fretful verdin was talking about something with the old emphatic monotony.
1939 G. B. Pickwell Deserts 139/2 This is the voice of the Verdin, a true bird of the desert.
1974 L. Gombrich tr. Von Frisch Animal Archit. (1975) 211 The verdin barricades its nest with thorns.
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