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ox-bird, oxbird
[f. ox + bird n. 2.]
1. A name applied to various British small wild-fowl; esp. the Dunlin (Tringa variabilis); also, locally, to the Sanderling (Calidris arenaria), Ringed Plover (ægialitis hiaticula), Common Sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus).
a1547in Househ. Ord. (1790) 223 Prices of Foule—Oxe⁓birds, the doz. 1591–4Lancaster Voy. to E. Indies (1810) II. 590 A certaine kind of foule called oxe birds, which are a gray kind of sea-foule, like a snite in colour but not in beake. 1699J. Jones in Misc. Cur. (1708) III. 393 Plovers, Snipes, Ox-birds, Pipers,..and a hundred other sort of Fowl. 1802G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 144 Ox-bird, a name for the Stint. 1813P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 89 Killing..1 jack snipe and 5 ox-birds. 1863J. R. Wise New Forest 312 Ringed Plover..known..in the neighbourhood of Christchurch and Lymington, as the ‘oxbird’. 1883― in Hampsh. Gloss., Ox-bird, the common sand-piper. 1884Wood in Sunday Mag. May 306/2 The Dunlin..on the Medway Creeks..is known as Ox-bird. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 195 Sanderling (Calidris arenaria), also called..Ox bird (Essex; Kent). 1886R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log i. 11 The tiny broad-arrow mark of the oxbird.
2. Applied to
a. a species of Weaver-bird, Textor alector;
b. the African ox-pecker or -biter (Cent. Dict.).
1883List Anim. Zool. Soc. 246. 1896 Ibid. (ed. 9) 258 Textor alector, Ox-bird. |