catbird

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A North American songbird (Dumetella carolinensis) having predominantly slate plumage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A wellknown oscine passerine bird of North America, Mimus caro-linensis, one of the mocking-thrushes, related to the mocking-bird. It is of a dark slate-color, with a black cap and a red vent, and is so called because its cry of alarm resembles the mewing of a cat. Its proper song is voluble, varied, and highly musical. It abounds in the shrubbery of the eastern United States, builds a coarse nest in bushes, lays from 4 to 6 dark-green eggs, and is migratory and insectivorous.
2. n. An Australian name of members of the genus Ælurœdus: so called on account of the resemblance of their notes to the calls of a cat.

Wiktionary

1. n. Either of two species of American mockingbird relatives, the grey catbird and the black catbird.
2. n. Either of four species of Australasian bowerbirds of the genera Ailuroedus and Scenopooetes.
3. n. A babbler-like bird from eastern Africa, Parophasma galinieri.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females
2. n. North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing