Deathbird

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:55:02

Death"bird` (?), n. Zool.

Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

 

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