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Quotation dates: 1950
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TITTY WREN, n.comb. The willow warbler, Phylloscopus trochilus (Ayr. 1972).Lnk. 1950 Scottish Field (Oct.) 17:
The bird was called, in the colloquialism of my district, the titty-wren, which was almost always slurred into something like tittery-anne.
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