Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The golden-crowned warbler or yellow-rump, Dendræca coronata.

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Examples

  • A bat flew over our heads, and we heard a few faint notes of birds from time to time, perhaps the myrtle-bird for one, or the sudden plunge of a musquash, or saw one crossing the stream before us, or heard the sound of a rill emptying in, swollen by the recent rain.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • A bat flew over our heads, and we heard a few faint notes of birds from time to time, perhaps the myrtle-bird for one, or the sudden plunge of a musquash, or saw one crossing the stream before us, or heard the sound of a rill emptying in, swollen by the recent rain.

    The Maine Woods 1858

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