ruticilla

plural ruticillas

1. A bird, the redstart.

   The Ruticilla, or the small Redstart, Red-Tail, Fire-Tail, or Star-Finch, a beautiful song-bird, entertains us all summer, and disappears on the approach of winter.

   1769, John Wallis, The Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland

   1 more example

   Beside the Canary warbler I have only seen of small birds a couple of flame-coloured ruticillas (setophaga ruticilla,) a very rich-tinted bird, whose plumage of intermingled black and orange, as I would say, if oranges were always as ruddy as they are in this and the succeeding month, when they are luscious ripe, whose rich fiery plumage, never fails to arrest attention.

   1855, Richard Hill, A week at Port Royal, page 7