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shilfa
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From its call.
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shilfa
(
plural
shilfas
)
(
UK
,
dialect
)
The
chaffinch
.
1866
, Alexander Smith,
Alfred Hagart's Household
, page
20
:
And the birds! not the gray sparrows you see here, but
shilfas
and bullfinches and yellow-yeldrings.
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