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Webster 1828 Edition


Black-bird

BLACK'-BIRD

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Noun.
[black and bird.] In England, the merula, a species of turdus, a singing bird with a fine note, but very loud. In America, this name is given to different birds,as to the gracula quiscula, or crow black-bird, and to the oriolus phaeniceus, or red winged black-bird.