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Definition of Catbirds
1. catbird [n] - See also: catbird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catbirds
Literary usage of Catbirds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Franklin Fifth Reader: With a New Elocutionary Treatise, Essentials by Loomis Joseph Campbell, Mark Bailey (1884)
"... —THE BLACK SNAKE AND catbirds. BURROUGHS. 1. I HARDLY know whether I am more
pleased or annoyed with the catbird. Perhaps she is a little too common, ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"Having ascertained what insects were eaten bv caged catbirds, it will now be ...
None of the hard shelled beetles, which were refused by captive catbirds, ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1908)
"some distance away, the robins and catbirds still pursuing. ... The catbirds
above mentioned had their nest in a small catalpa tree about thirty yards from ..."
4. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"Where do catbirds build their nests? How high from the ground? ... Why is it an
advantage to us to have catbirds build in our gardens? 9. ..."
5. Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt (1913)
"Song-sparrows and catbirds sang in the shrubbery; one robin had built ...
The thrashers sing in the hedgerows beyond the garden, the catbirds everywhere. ..."
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