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Any bird of the genus Merganser, and allied genera. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill.

One of a family of birds (Meropidæ), including the bee-eaters.

A bird of the Thrush family.

A bird having a mesomyodous larynx.

Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill.

The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification.

A migratory bird or other animal.

dically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.

Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.

species (U. gobio), and the American (U. gracilis); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff- chaff, and long-tailed tit. [Prov. Eng.]

Of or resembling birds of the kite kind.

A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.

A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidæ.

An Asiatic bird (Gracula musica), allied to the starlings. It is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words.

Mistletoe. [Obs.] Missel bird, Missel thrush (Zoöl.), a large European thrush (Turdus viscivorus) which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.

n the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. [Written also misletoe, misseltoe, and mistleto.] Lindley. Loudon.

Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species…

To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. [Obs.]

A mocking bird. Mocker nut (Bot.), a kind of hickory (Carya tomentosa) and its fruit, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.

Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive. Mocking bird (Zoöl.), a North American singing bird (Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feath…