rush-tailed

Updated: June 16, 2025

Rabo de junco is explained to signify Rush-tailed: Rabo being a tail and Junco a rush in the Spanish language. Don Ferdinand compliments his father too largely in this place by supposing Cipango and Hispaniola the same.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time