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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having chestnut color on the wings.

Examples

  • “Probably they are -- at least to a greater or less degree -- except one, the bay-winged cowbird of South America, which”

    Our Bird Comrades

  • “Instead of inflicting its eggs on its more distant avian relatives, it watches its chance and slyly drops them into the domicile of its bay-winged cousins, and actually makes them hatch and rear its offspring!”

    Our Bird Comrades

  • “Argentine country -- the screaming cowbird (_Molothrus rufoaxillaris_) and the bay-winged cowbird (_Molothrus badius_).”

    Our Bird Comrades

  • “The bird who is called indiscriminately the grass finch, the bay-winged bunting, the bay-winged sparrow, the vesper sparrow, and I know not what else (the ornithologists have nicknamed him _Pooecetes gramineus_), is”

    Birds in the Bush

  • “I saw no bay-winged buntings until the 22d, although it is likely enough they had been here for some days before that.”

    Birds in the Bush

  • “Indeed, the same may be said of bird-songs generally, -- those of the song sparrow, the bay-winged bunting, and the wood thrush being familiar examples.”

    Birds in the Bush

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