passero

There was also music of another kind coming from a passero solitario (the blue rock thrush) who was hanging in a cage in a doorway.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

Here too I heard, or thought I heard, the song of that most beautiful of all bird songsters, the passero solitario, or solitary sparrow-if it is a sparrow, which I should doubt.

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 1881

Nobody knows what a bird can do in the way of song until he has heard a passero solitario.

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 1881

Be this, however, as it may, none of these please me so much as the passero solitario.

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 1881

The suffix is often diminutive. auc, a gander. aucat, gosling. passero, sparrow. passerat, small sparrow. ” au, ” alo.

Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

Catullus’s Lesbia, whose immortal passer Butler felt sure was also a passero solitario, she had the misfortune to lose her pet.

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 1881