least flycatcher
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of least flycatcher
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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The flycatchers are well represented in the Park, there being no fewer than five species; the least flycatcher, wood pewee, phœbe, crested flycatcher, and kingbird.
From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by William Beebe
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 William Beebe
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 Bradford Torrey
A least flycatcher flitted about in the copse some distance up a shallow runway.
From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
Yet the thrushes are song birds par excellence, while the phœbe, the least flycatcher, and the kingbird are not supposed to be able to sing at all.
From Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey
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