Obs. rare. Wyclif’s adaptation of the Charadrius of the Vulgate, Χαραδριός of the Septuagint. The latter was, ‘according to Sundevall, the stone-curlew or thick-kneed bustard, Charadrius Œdicnemus’ (Liddell and Scott). Caladrius occurs also in later writers (quoting from Aristotle) as some reputed white bird.
1388. Wyclif, Deut. xiv. 18. Ete ȝe not vncleene briddis … a cormeraunt, and a caladrie [1382 jay; 1611 the Storke and the Heron].
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 76. The Caladrius, sayth Aristotle, is of milkie colour, without any black spot.
1601. Chester, Love’s Mart., clviii. (1878), 117. The snow-like colour’d bird, Caladrius.
