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Quotation dates: 1795
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†OSWALD, n. Also oswat. Appar. the ring-ouzel, Turdus torquatus.Ags. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 XIX. 377:
Besides partridge, grouse, the fieldfare, and other common birds, they have one called the oswald, or oswat, very much resembling a blackbird. This, I suppose, is what the English call the ousel, and describe as the very same with the blackbird. What is here called the oswald, however, passes for a different species.
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