Obs. [? Arising from a misunderstanding of LG. *wîngaardsvogel, weingartdrossel, f. wîngaard vineyard, WINYARD + vogel bird, drossel thrush. Perhaps never current; cf. WINNARD.] The redwing, Turdus iliacus.
1544. Turner, Avium Præcip., I 7. Tertium genus [Turdorum] ab Anglis a wyngthrushe, et à Germanis eyn weingaerdsuoegel nuncupatur. Hic turdus … maculas habet latiusculas rubras.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Litorne, a birde of the bignesse of a blacke bird called a wing thrushe.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Litorne.
