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robin robin red-breast 
n. a large red-breasted thrush, Turdus migratorious, native to North America.
- 1620 [Their particulars too tedious to relate, all good meate . . . black birds with redd breastes. . . .]
- 1778 (1792) I shot a loon, took a duck's nest . . . and found a robin's nest.
- 1778 (1792) . . . one of [the traps] had a robin red-breast in it.
- 1909 For instance, little Robin Red-Breast . . . has successively lived through three tags, "Turdus migratorius," "Planesticus migratorius," "Turdus canadensis."
- 1934 "In spring-time, these bushes will be covered with marsh blackbirds--you'll see. Plenty of meadow larks and robins, too."
- 1966 Drury said the robin had been sitting in a mountain ash tree in his front yard for over a month before being rescued.
- 1620 [Their particulars too tedious to relate, all good meate . . . black birds with redd breastes. . . .]