aberdavine

plural aberdavines

1. alternativeAlternative form of aberdevine.

   Dear Sir,—The birds that I took for aberdavines were reed-sparrows (passeres torquati).

   1770, Gilbert White, edited by Edward Jesse, The Natural History Of Selborne, London: George Bell & Sons, published 1898, page 130

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   This bird seems not to have been described by any of the ornithologists; it is of the finch tribe, and about the same size with our aberdavine (or siskin).

   1773, Daines Barrington, “Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds”, in Philosophical Transactions, volume 63, London: Royal Society, →ISSN, page 254