Crossword clues for bullfinch
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bullfinch \Bull"finch`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the Pyrrhula vulgaris or Pyrrhula rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.
Note: As a cage bird it is highly valued for its remarkable power of learning to whistle correctly various musical airs.
Crimson-fronted bullfinch. (Zo["o]l.) See Burion.
Pine bullfinch, the pine finch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The Eurasian bullfinch (''Pyrrhula pyrrhula''). 2 any of various other Old World finches in the genus ''Pyrrhula''.
Wikipedia
- A bullfinch is one of two groups of passerine birds
Bullfinch can also refer to:
- Bullfinch (obstacle), an obstacle seen on the cross-country course in the sport of eventing
- USS Bullfinch, the name of two US Navy ships
- Bullfinch, Western Australia, a town in Australia
Usage examples of "bullfinch".
Gertrude Winlow, revolving like a faintly coloured statue, to young Tharp, with his clean face and his fair bullety head, who danced as though he were riding at a bullfinch.
Hedgesparrows, coal-tits, wagtails, yellowhammers, robins, bullfinches, half the birdlife of Germany was pecking at her finger through the wooden bars.
Longarm refrained from commenting that if Bullfinch really wanted to do something for law and order around Timber City, he would have gotten to the bottom of this feud between the cattlemen and the loggers before now.
THE BULLFINCHES Bother Bulleys, let us sing From the dawn till evening!
He might take a rattling toss or two at the bullfinches of Ashby Pastures, but it seemed likely that he would turn out in prime style, and possible that he would prove himself to be a true cut of Leicestershire.
There is a family of bullfinches, which must have nested in or near our garden, and they are very tame, and have been giving us entertainment lately by their antics feeding their young, often just outside the diningroom window.
In cages suspended from the ceiling there were birds of strange form and bright plumage, which at our entrance set up a chorus of song, modulated into tune as is that of our piping bullfinches.
All these birds had been trained to sing in artful tunes, and greatly exceeded the skill of our piping bullfinches, which can rarely achieve more than two tunes, and cannot, I believe, sing those in concert.
If I should say that ganders grow also to be gelded, I suppose that some will laugh me to scorn, neither have I tasted at any time of suc tivits, king-fishers, buntings, turtles (white or grey), linnets, bullfinches, goldfinches, washtails, cherrycrackers, yellowhammers, fieldfares, etc.