Dowitcher: alternatives and connections

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter.…

Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.

A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…

Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.

Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish,…

Gray; bluish gray.

The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch.

The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.

The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).

A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. Th…

A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to b…

Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.

An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.

A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

The red-breasted merganser.

An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…