red-barred

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The air rang with the blue jay's chatter, a robin showed his tawny breast among the withered grasses, and a flicker on a dead stump bobbed his little red-barred head and fluttered his yellow wings.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
Clay brought the red-barred flag down with a jerk, and ripped it free from the halyards.

Soldiers of Fortune 1897
Clay brought the red-barred flag down with a jerk, and ripped it free from the halyards.

Soldiers of Fortune Richard Harding Davis 1890
The windmill stood up against the red-barred sky with outlines softened by the clinging dew.

Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
Page view page image: lamb, its earliest fleece; and then the Christmas dawn, draping those dun highlands with red-barred plaids and tartans — goodly sight from your piazza, that.

The piazza tales 1856
To the east, that long camp of the Hearth Stone Hills, fading far away towards Quito; and every fall, a small white flake of something peering suddenly, of a coolish morning, from the topmost cliff -- the season's new-dropped lamb, its earliest fleece; and then the Christmas dawn, draping those dim highlands with red-barred plaids and tartans -- goodly sight from your piazza, that.

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855