Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackpolls
Literary usage of Blackpolls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"Perhaps if we recall some of the cases of warblers in distress we have witnessed
or read of we remember that such long winged species, as blackpolls, ..."
2. A World of Green Hills: Observations of Nature and Human Nature in the Blue by Bradford Torrey (1898)
"It is a curious circumstance, universally observed, that warblers, with a few
partial exceptions, — blackpolls and myrtle birds especially, — travel thus in ..."
3. From Blomidon to Smoky: And Other Papers by Frank Bolles (1894)
"Watching ever so eagerly, I failed to see any blackpolls, Wilson blackcaps, bay -
breasted, mourning, or yellow redpoll warblers, and it seemed strange to ..."
4. The Clerk of the Woods by Bradford Torrey (1903)
"Within a few days we must have the grand September influx of warblers — crowds
of blackpolls, myrtles, black-throated greens, and many more. ..."
5. Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville (1920)
"... throated blue and bay-breasted were among the crowd, while black-throated
greens, myrtles, magnolias, chestnut-sided, blackpolls, Canadians, redstarts, ..."
6. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"It is one of the late arrivals in the State, in fact one of the latest of this
family to arrive, reaching the interior at about the time the blackpolls ..."
7. Proceedings of the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences (1903)
"... and on reaching the more open ledges of the former, at about 2200 feet, at
once noticed the numbers of blackpolls that were passing. ..."
8. North American Fauna by Bureau of Biological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States (1908)
"It was in a migrating flock of blackpolls and redstarts. These records seem to
comprise the stun a Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XI, p. 484, 1843. ..."
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