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Definition of Tailorbird
1. Noun. Tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest.
Generic synonyms: Old World Warbler, True Warbler
Group relationships: Genus Orthotomus, Orthotomus
Definition of Tailorbird
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailorbird
Literary usage of Tailorbird
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels and Researches in Crete by Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (1865)
"... instinct and reason, or wherein they differ, and their exact point of departure
1 The Beaver builds his house, the tailorbird sews its leafy nest, ..."
2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... observed ornithology of the Bengal part of India : the bright little lora may
perhaps seem to represent the Titmice, and the tiny ' tailorbird' the wren ..."
3. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Straits Branch (1881)
"This tailorbird makes the same ingeniously constructed neat as the others of its
kind. One of these, which I have before me, consists of a large leaf about ..."
4. An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain by John Gould (1873)
"... by that of certain foreign species; and we are struck with astonishment when
we gaze upon such nests as those of the tailorbird, the Sociable Grosbeak, ..."
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