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robin
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:robin red-breast
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a large red-breasted thrush, Turdus migratorious, native to North America.
Quotations
1620
[Their particulars too tedious to relate, all good meate . . . black birds with redd breastes. . . .]
1778
. . . one of [the traps] had a robin red-breast in it.
1778
I shot a loon, took a duck's nest . . . and found a robin's nest.
1909
For instance, little Robin Red-Breast . . . has successively lived through three tags, "Turdus migratorius," "Planesticus migratorius," "Turdus canadensis."
1934
"In spring-time, these bushes will be covered with marsh blackbirds--you'll see. Plenty of meadow larks and robins, too."
1966
Drury said the robin had been sitting in a mountain ash tree in his front yard for over a month before being rescued.