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An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus or holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects; the satin bird.

The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

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An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.

The chippy.

A pet name for any small bird.

The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle.

A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

The galeated curassow. See Curassow.

Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

A small water bird. See Dabchick.

The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.

The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.

a fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaëthon flavirostris.

The Baltimore oriole.

The golden plover.

The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker. [Prov. Eng.]

The chipping sparrow.

The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.

The European spotted flycatcher.