rock-ouzel
[rock n.1]
The ring-ouzel.
| 1678 Ray Willughby's Ornith. 195 This..was shot..not far from a Village called Hathers-edge in the Mountains of the Peak of Derbyshire, where the Inhabitants call it Rock-Ouzel. Ibid. 197 The greater Redstart of Olina, called by Aldrovand, Merula Saxatilis [marg. i.e. The Rock Ouzel]. 1772 Phil. Trans. LXII. 266 The Royston Crow, and Rock Ouzel, furnish instances of such a regular migration. 1802 Montagu Ornith. Dict. s.v. Ring-ouzel, The young birds, before the white on the breast appears, have been considered as a different species, under the name of Rock-Ouzel. 1862 Johns Brit. Birds Index, Rock Ouzel, the Ring Ouzel. |