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Wheatear

A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.

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Thrush 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.

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Ambergris noun · 78% connection

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secreti…

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Argillite noun · 78% connection

Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.

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Basanite noun · 78% connection

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the…

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Bilberry noun · 78% connection

The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.

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Blackbird noun · 78% connection

any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black

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Blackcock noun · 78% connection

The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grou…

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Blonket adjective · 78% connection

Gray; bluish gray.

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Bobolink noun · 78% connection

An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird…

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Brown thrush unknown · 78% connection

A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.

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Canary bird unknown · 78% connection

A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th cent…

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Castrato noun · 78% connection

A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano.

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Creeper noun · 78% connection

A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var…

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Gray superl. · 78% connection

Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.

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Grizzle noun · 78% connection

Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black.

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Grizzled adjective · 78% connection

Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.

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Kagu noun · 78% connection

A singular, crested, grallatorial bird (Rhinochetos jubatus), native of New Caledonia. It is gray above, paler beneath, and the feathe…

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Kingbird noun · 78% connection

A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles,…

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Koodoo noun · 78% connection

A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color…

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