rubythroat

English

Archilochus colubris

Calliope calliope

Rubigula dispar

Etymology

From ruby +‎ throat.

Noun

rubythroat (plural rubythroats)

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

References

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