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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A popular name of the sooty tern, Sterna (Haliplana) fuliginosa, whose eggs, like those of some other terns, have commercial value in the West Indies and southern United States.
- n. A name of sundry other sea-birds, as murres, guillemots, etc., which nest in large communities, and whose eggs are of economic or commercial value.
Wiktionary
- n. dated A species of tern, especially the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies or, in the Bahamas, Phaethon flavirostris.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaëthon flavirostris.
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“Also worth noting, the egg-bird cake is entirely fondant free.”
“Nine days afterwards a tropical bird was seen, and on the 15th the voyagers caught sight of an egg-bird and a gannet; and as these birds never fly far from land, the lead was constantly heaved through the night.”
“Under the low trees above-mentioned, sat infinite numbers of a new species of tern, or egg-bird.”
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
“On the 15th they faw an egg-bird and a gannet; and on the day following a fmall land-bird perched on the rigging, from which they concluded they were near land; but they found no ground with one hundred and twenty fathom.”
Internet Archive: Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
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