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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHOUGH, n. The Cornish chough is a fowl of the genus Corvus, nearly of the size of the crow, and mischievous, like the magpie. It is black, except the bill, legs and feet, which are red. It is a native of the west of England.
Couch is also applied to the jackdaw.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 13th century either of two Old World birds (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and P. graculus) that are related to the crows and have red legs and glossy blue-black plumage

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any corvine bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax, with a glossy blue-black plumage and red legs. Etymology: ME, prob. orig. imit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chough Chough, n. [OE. choughe, kowe (and cf. OE. ca), fr. AS. ce['o]; cf. also D. kauw, OHG. ch[=a]ha; perh. akin to E. caw. [root]22. Cf. Caddow.] (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.