Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird of the thrush kind, Turdus torquatus or Merula torquata, resembling and closely related to the blackbird, Turdus merula or Merula vulgaris, but having a white ring or bar on the breast; the ring-blackbird. See cut under
ouzel .
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Examples
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The _throstle_, the _red-wing_, and the _fieldfare_, which migrated in March, now return; and the _ring-ouzel_ arrives from the Welsh and Scottish Alps to winter in more sheltered situations.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Various
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Some birds, haunting with the missel-thrushes, and feeding on the berries of the yew tree, which answered to the description of the _merula torquata_, or ring-ouzel, were lately seen in this neighbourhood.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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Your letter came too late for me to procure a ring-ouzel for Mr. Tunstal during their autumnal visit; but I will endeavour to get him one when they call on us again in April.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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"He had cut open the crops of cuckoos and nightjars and ring-ouzels to find out what they were eating." The Countryman British farm journal, Autumn, 1955, p.46. Article about Gilbert White's 1789 book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne.
January 28, 2010