Peabody bird

English

Etymology

The name is imitative of its note.

Noun

Peabody bird (plural Peabody birds)

1. (US, dated) white-throated sparrow, an American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) with a conspicuous white throat.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Peabody bird”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)