waxwings

Noun

waxwing (plural waxwings)

1. Any of several songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, having crested heads, and red tips to the wings.
   • I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
     By the false azure in the windowpane;
     I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I
     Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.1962, Charles Kinbote [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], Pale Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 1985, →ISBN