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rose-breasted, a. Ornith.
[f. rose n.]
Having a breast of a rosy or carmine hue. In the names of various birds, as rose-breasted cockatoo, rose-breasted finch, rose-breasted fly-catcher, rose-breasted grosbeak, etc.
1801Latham Gen. Synop. Birds Suppl. II. 223 Rose-breasted Fly Catcher... N.S. Wales. 1810A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. II. 135 The Rose-breasted Grosbeak is..thirteen inches in extent. 1847Leichhardt Jrnl. viii. 272 The rose-breasted cockatoo (Cocatua eos, Gould) visited the patches of fresh burnt grass. 1859–63J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. II. 192 The Rose-breasted Nyctiornis, or Red-faced Night-feeder. 1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 348 Carpodacus frontalis rhodocolpus,..Rose-Breasted Finch. Ibid. 389 Zamelodia ludoviciana,..Rose-Breasted Song Grosbeak. |