least flycatcher
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of least flycatcher
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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The least flycatcher, called minimus by the scientists, well deserves his name, for of all those members of his family which make their home with us, he is the smallest.
From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by Beebe, William
The least flycatcher has another name which at once distinguishes him—chebec’.
From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by Beebe, William
It was a least flycatcher, and her undoing was her acceptance of nesting material, which her human friend, the oft-mentioned local bird-lover, supplied.
From Upon The Tree-Tops by Miller, Olive Thorne
Ask him about a few of the commonest,—the least flycatcher and the oven-bird, or the golden warbler and the Maryland yellow-throat.
From The Foot-path Way by Torrey, Bradford
A least flycatcher flitted about in the copse some distance up a shallow runway.
From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)
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