The beccafico appears about autumn, and the blackcap as soon as autumn has ended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

In the same way with the beccafico and the blackcap; these change into one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

The doctor was a stickler for quality as well as quantity; the memory of his claret and beccafico days still clung to him, like the scent of the roses to Tom Moore's broken gallipot: he was curious in condiments, and whilst devouring, grumbled at the unseasoned viands of Tahiti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

Among small birds, beyond all doubt, the best is the "beccafico.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

Were the beccafico as large as a pheasant, an acre of land would be paid for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

'There is Malvoisia sack,' said the man in black, 'and partridge, and beccafico.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference

"There is Malvoisia sack," said the man in black, "and partridge, and beccafico.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference

The young birds themselves are said to be very delicate food, and not inferior in richness of flavour to the beccafico.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of the Guild] Reference

He can talk of sausages and silkworms, and forestry and agriculture and sheep-grazing, and how they catch porcupines and cure warts and manufacture manna; he knows about the evil eye and witches and the fata morgana and the tarantula spider, about figs in ancient and modern times and the fig-pecker bird -- that bird you eat bones and all, the focetola or beccafico (garden warbler).    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone] Reference

"He waits for a thrush, an ortolan, a beccafico, a robin-redbreast, or any other feathered and diminutive biped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

Thrashing and turning, twisting and drifting off one minute, jolting awake and then lying back down – and it wasn’t from having scarfed down too much octopus a strascinasali or sardines a beccafico the evening before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lean Left » Blog Archive » Recommended Books Week] Reference

‘and partridge, and beccafico.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro] Reference

“beccafico.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference