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Catbird  n.  (Zool.) 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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Catbird" Quotes from Famous Books



... and in unison, earth waxed greener; then in descending scale, both together waned. Migratory wings fluttering at night, and passing voices calling in the darkness—most lonely sounds of earth—gave place to singers of the day. The robin, the meadow-lark, the ubiquitous catbird, all born of prairie and of summer, came and went. Blackbirds in countless flocks followed. Again the calling of prairie-chickens was heard at eve and morning, and anon frost glistened ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge

... not gone before Jasper Jay had four callers. There was Bobbie Bobolink, Jolly Robin, Miss Kitty Catbird and Buddy Brown-Thrasher. ...
— The Tale of Jasper Jay - Tuck-Me-In Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey



Words linked to "Catbird" :   genus Dumetella, family Ptilonorhynchidae, oscine bird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, bowerbird, Dumetella, satin bowerbird, oscine, gray catbird, Chlamydera nuchalis, great bowerbird, grey catbird



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