ermine-breasted

Updated: September 2, 2025

She watched the birds bathe bullfinches, smooth-coated and well-found; slim willow-wrens; thrushes, ermine-breasted; lusty blackbirds with beaks of crude yellow. They made neat little tracks over the soft mud, drank, bathed, preened, and made other neat little tracks.

Mary Gladys Meredith Webb - Gone to Earth