What does ruticilla mean?
Ruticilla means A bird, the redstart..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A bird, the redstart..
The Ruticilla, or the small Redstart, Red-Tail, Fire-Tail, or Star-Finch, a beautiful song-bird, entertains us all summer, and disappears on the approach of winter.
Beside the Canary warbler I have only seen of small birds a couple of flame-coloured ruticillas (setophaga ruticilla,) a very rich-tinted bird, whose plumage of intermingled black and orange, as I would say, if oranges were always as ruddy as they are in this and the succeeding month, when they are luscious ripe, whose rich fiery plumage, never fails to arrest attention.
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Ruticilla means A bird, the redstart..
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The Ruticilla, or the small Redstart, Red-Tail, Fire-Tail, or Star-Finch, a beautiful song-bird, entertains us all summer, and disappears on the approach of winter.
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