rice-bird

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RICE-BIRD, RICE-BUNTING, noun A bird of the United States, the Emberiza oryzivora; so named from its feeding on rice in the southern states. In New England it is called bob-lincoln.
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