Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a yellow crest: specifically applied to several kinglets or goldcrests.
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Examples
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The hotspot also has five endemic bird genera, each represented by a single species: golden-crested myna (Ampeliceps coronatus), short-tailed scimitar-babbler (Jabouilleia danjoui) and wedge-billed wren-babbler (Sphenoicichla humei).
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Then come the becca-fico, the black-cap, the bull-finch, the robin, the epilais, the midget-bird, and the golden-crested wren.
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Prague, yet younger than the little egg of the golden-crested wren; she has multiplied more upon the earth than the crimson strawberry in the green woods of Bohemia:
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The guns came into action against this hill at a range of about two thousand yards, and it seemed as if a golden-crested wren could not have escaped if it had been unlucky enough to be there.
The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer
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Only solid force remained -- the force that drove the boat strongly, unerringly, through the golden-crested waves.
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The golden-crested wren builds a nest which is almost invisible; once you have mastered the trick, no gold-crest is safe.
Alone Norman Douglas 1910
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With the helmet the maiden gave her mistress 'message, that she would yield to her knight's pleadings and become his bride, as soon as he had proved himself a valiant and worthy wearer of the golden-crested helm.
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And out of that shadow rose Solaro, straight and tall, flushed and golden-crested, like a beauty throned, and the white moon was floating behind her in the sky.
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Seems yearning upward fondly through the golden-crested calm.
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896
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The shrubbery beneath the windows was enlivened to-day by a large flock of very pretty little birds, the golden-crested kinglets, with greenish-yellow and brown bodies, a brilliant carmine spot on the head, encircled with a golden border, and then a black one.
Rural Hours 1887
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