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white-fronted redstart
1. Originally (more fully common redstart, †white-fronted redstart): a migratory songbird of Eurasia and North Africa, Phoenicurus phoenicurus (family Turdidae), the male of which has an orange breast and flanks and a rusty-red tail. Later also (chiefly with distinguishing word): any of various other Eurasian and North African birds of the genus Phoenicurus and closely related genera. Also called redtail.In quot. 1738: probably a bulbul (family Timaliidae).
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1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 4v/2 A redstert, ruticilla, læ, & phænicurus, græce.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ciii/1 Redstart, ruticilla.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. ii. 223/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I It may be that some looke for a discourse also of our other foules in this place at my hand, as nightingales, thrushes, blackebirds, mauises, ruddocks, redstarts or dunocks.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) The Redstert, or Redtaile, rossignol de muraille, rubienne.
1657 R. Tomlinson To Rdr. in R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Dispensatory sig. c2 Who can determine what becomes of Cranes, Cuckoes,..Red-starts, that some are seen onely in Summer, some in Winter?
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 197 The greater Redstart of Olina, called by Aldrovand, Merula Saxatilis [margin i.e. The Rock Ouzel].
1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 52 This Bird was brought from Bengall in the year 1734, without any Name being affixt to it;..I shall beg leave to call it by the Name of the Bengall Redstart.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 507 Authors call it the Ruticilla and Phœnicurus; we, the Fire-tail, the Star-finch, and the Red-start.
1774 G. White Let. 2 Sept. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 104 The song of the redstart is superior, though somewhat like that of the white-throat.
1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 204 We have no bird more assiduous in attentions to their young than the red-start.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 190 The White-fronted Redstart..is a common summer visitant in many parts of Britain.
1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 776 The males of the Black Redstart seem to be more than one year in acquiring their full plumage.
1925 C. E. Raven In Praise of Birds vi. 76 Not far off was a Redstart's nest in a piece of old iron piping.
1950 J. Buxton Redstart xi. 132 Am I to describe as redstarts only those species which are placed in the genus Phoenicurus?
1983 S. Ali & S. D. Ripley Handbk. Birds India & Pakistan (compact ed.) viii. 265 [Guldenstadt's Redstart] replaces Whitecapped Redstart at high altitudes.
1999 Birdwatch Apr. 35/2 In spring its woods hold breeding Common Redstarts and Siskins.
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