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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Per.]

(Zool.)

The Persian nightingale (

Pycnonotus jocosus

). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family

Timaliidæ

. The green bulbuls belong to the

Chloropsis

and allied genera.

[Written also

buhlbuhl