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red-legged, a.
Having red legs. a. In the specific names of birds (and animals), as red-legged crane, red-legged duck, red-legged heron, red-legged parakeet, red-legged thrush, red-legged turtle, red-legged wallaby, etc.
red-legged chough or crow, the Cornish chough. r. falcon, the red-footed falcon (Falco rufipes). r. gull, the black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus). r. horseman, the redshank (Totanus calidris). r. kittiwake, Rissa brevirostris. r. mew = r. gull. r. partridge, the French partridge (Caccabis rufa); also fig. a cardinal (quot. 1813). r. plover U.S., the turnstone (Cent. Dict. 1891). r. sandpiper, (a) the redshank; (b) the purple sandpiper.
1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 208 European or *Red-legged Chough.
a1705Ray Synopsis Avium (1713) 193 The *red⁓legged Crane.
1776Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4) I. 196 *Red legged Crow. The legs and bill are of a bright orange, inclining to red. 1875McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 139 These precipices are frequented by the red-legged crow.
1729in Dampier's Voy. (ed. 3) III. 403 The *red-legg'd Duck. The feet of these when roasted dye both Hands and Linnen red.
1836Eyton Rare Brit. Birds 5 *Red-legged Falcon.
1785Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 381 *Red-legged Gull, Larus cinerarius. 1802Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1831) 291 The Red-legged Gull of authors is only this bird before it is arrived at maturity.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Ibis..by some confounded very erroneously with the hæmatopus, or *red-legged heron.
1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 299 We take this to be the bird the French call Chevalier aux pieds rouges, the *red-leg'd Horseman. 1734E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds II. 63 The Totanus or Red-leg'd Horseman. 1892Within an hour of London xiii. 256 The redshank, pool-snipe,..red-leg, red-legged horseman.
1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 372 The *red-legged Parroquet... This species is a native of many places both in the East and West Indies.
1611Cotgr., Perdrix gaille,..the great browne-bodied, and *red-legd Partridge, the French Partridge. 1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 167 The Red-leg'd Partridge, Perdrix ruffa Aldrov. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 20 Red-legged partridges are natives of Numidia. 1813Examiner 31 May 344/2 Did you ever see one of us red-legged partridges before? 1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 437/1 They are most determined runners, and few birds are more calculated to injure the behaviour of a well-bred pointer or setter than the Red-legged Partridge.
1824Shaw Zool. XII. i. 135 *Red⁓legged Sandpiper (Totanus calidris). 1831Rennie Montagu's Ornith. Dict. 412 Little difference seems to exist between this [the redshank] and the red-legged sandpiper (T. Bewickii, Montagu) which is doubtless a variety of this species.
1754Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina (ed. 2) I. 30 The *red-leg'd Thrush, Turdus viscivorus plumbeus.
1729in Dampier's Voy. (ed. 3) III. 409 The *Red-legg'd Turtle.
1898Morris Austral Eng. 494/2 *Red-legged W[allaby], M[acropus] wilcoxi.
b. Of persons: Wearing red stockings.
1835Willis Pencillings I. xv. 111 The motley troop of cardinals and red-legged servitors passed out. |