Lexicographical Neighbors of Silktail
Literary usage of Silktail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"... the wood-pigeon ; the pochard ; and the occasional visitors, the crossbill
and the silktail ; or several species of the more rare aquatic wanderers, ..."
2. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"... the wood-pigeon ; the pochard ; and the occasional visitors, the crossbill
and the silktail ; or several species of the more rare aquatic wanderers, ..."
3. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1868)
"... not knowing what to expect; but the moment I took it in hand, I pronounced it
the male garrulus Bohemicus, or German silktail, from the five, ..."
4. The Intellectual Observer (1864)
"... and by cheerful notes break the sullen monotony of the dreary season, the
silktail, the grosbeak, the snowflake, crossbill, mountain finch, and mountain ..."
5. A History of British Birds by William YARRELL, Howard Saunders, Alfred Newton (1874)
"... the common German name of the bird—Seidenschwanz (silktail), just as Lister
subsequently did, when he had occasion to give it an English appellation. ..."
6. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine by Edward Hungerford Goddard, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1860)
"Called also the "silktail," and "Chatterer;" it is a winter visitant, and though
it occasionally comes in some numbers, it is by no means regular or ..."
7. Memory: An Inductive Study by Frederick Welton Colegrove, Granville Stanley Hall (1900)
"The silktail originally migrated south, but later took up a permanent abode in
Germany. Birds which 22 migrate by way of the Mediterranean, says Dr. August ..."
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