black-bird

I here observed several unknown birds; one was of the size and shape of a black-bird, with

Travels in Nubia 2004

The most destructive pest with which I have had to contend has been the large black-bird or purple grackle.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952

St. Gregory relates, that while St. Bennet was employed in divine contemplation, the fiend endeavored to withdraw his mind from heavenly objects, by appearing in the shape of a little black-bird; but that, upon his making the sign of the cross, the phantom vanished.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Here are a few small land-birds, but none bigger than a black-bird and but few sea fowls.

A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

The black-bird of the torrents, and the usual water-birds, black pheasants; bulbuls very common, Bucco barbatus, parroquets, barking deer.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Let the timid ones take fright at the squeaks of this old black-bird.

Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

They entered a bower, and found within it fruits growing in clusters and singly, and the birds were warbling their various notes upon the branches: the nightingale was pouring forth its melodious sounds; and the turtle-dove filled the place with its cooing; and the black-bird, in its singing, resembled a human being, and the ring-dove, a person exhilarated by wine.

Nights 32-36. The Story of Nur-Ed-din and Enis-El-Jelis. 1909

A box to hold china would have the hyphen properly, and there are many differentiations of this kind, of which black bird, as opposed to black-bird or blackbird, is the type.

Hyphens. 1908

The black-bird said, "Put the twigs on this bough;" the robin said, "Put the leaves between the twigs;" and the humming-bird said, "Put this soft green moss over it all."

The Book of Nature Myths Florence Holbrook 1896

Instantly take the robin, red-winged black-bird, dove, grosbeak, wood-duck and gull off the list of birds that may be killed as

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895