rubythroat

English

Archilochus colubris

Calliope calliope

Rubigula dispar

Etymology

ruby +‎ throat

Noun

rubythroat (plural rubythroats)

Any of several species of birds, the males having a brilliant patch of metallic red on the throat.
1. Archilochus colubris, the ruby-throated hummingbird.
2. Two species of genus Calliope (syn. Luscinia), Calliope calliope, the Siberian rubythroat, and Calliope pectoralis, the white-tailed rubythroat.
3. Rubigula dispar (syn. Pycnonotus dispar), the ruby-throated bulbul.

References

Ruby-throated hummingbird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Archilochus colubris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Archilochus colubris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Calliope (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Calliope on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Calliope (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Rubigula dispar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Pycnonotus dispar on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Pycnonotus dispar on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
“rubythroat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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