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red-shouldered, a. Ornith.
Having the shoulder or bend of the wing red, esp. the red-shouldered buzzard, red-shouldered falcon, or red-shouldered hawk of N. America (Buteo lineatus).
1785Pennant Arctic Zool. II. 206 Red Shouldered F[alcon]. 1790White Voy. N.S. Wales App. 263 The Red Shouldered Paroquet..Psittacus Discolor. 1792Pennant Arctic Zool. (ed. 2) II. 143 Red-Shouldered Heron. 1809Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. ii. 421 Red-Shouldered Oriole. Oriolus phœniceus. 1812Wilson Amer. Ornith. VI. 86 Red-Shouldered Hawk. Falco Lineatus... The Red-Shouldered Hawk is nineteen inches in length. 1884Harper's Mag. Mar. 622/1 The red-shouldered hawk is a handsome bird. |