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verdin|ˈvɜːdɪn| Also Verdin. [a. F. verdin yellow-hammer.] A small grey tit with a yellow head, Auriparus flaviceps, found in south-western North America.
1881Amer. Naturalist XV. 217 Another minute species of the titmouse family, the verdin or yellow-headed titmouse. 1903Atlantic Monthly July 103 The same fretful verdin was talking about something with the old emphatic monotony. 1939G. B. Pickwell Deserts 139/2 This is the voice of the Verdin, a true bird of the desert. 1974L. Gombrich tr. von Frisch's Animal Archit. (1975) 211 The verdin barricades its nest with thorns. |