birdling

• I can't help feeling mighty sorry for him, if the foster birdling is really going to fly away from his nest after he has reared and loved her so tenderly, but, after all, it is only the history of the human race. —  'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
• He had gone but a quarter of the way or so, when a trembling voice was heard Angus, wait," it said; the voice was faint and tremulous like a birdling's note--but Angus heard it and stood still. —  St. Cuthbert's
• From "Love will like a birdling fly" she slipped into the exquisitely graceful snatches of song with which Carmen answers the officer's questions. —  Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West
• His rush of rage cost the squirrel an eye; but it lost the father a birdling, for the squirrel dropped the egg outside the nest. —  The Song of the Cardinal
• "One birdling from the parent nest, —  Canadian Wild Flowers

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