reed-wren
[reed n.1]
The reed-warbler; also a name of various allied North American birds.
| 1783 Lightfoot in Phil. Trans. LXXV. 12 As we have already a bird, called in English the Willow-wren; ours, being nearly of the same size and shape, as well as the same genus, may, from its haunts, not improperly be denominated the Reed-wren. 1787 Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. 184 Reed Wren. Size of the Willow Wren. 1802 Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1831) 27 Others have undoubtedly taken the nest of the reed wren for it. 1862 Ansted Channel Isl. ii. ix. (ed. 2) 207, I have put the reed wren as doubtful for Guernsey. |