cage-bird

In Connecticut they have a newsport,setting cage-bird on cage-bird,saffron finches and canariesfor preference.

Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

Native species include the Bali starling (Leucopsar rothschildi, CR), a species endemic to Bali island and whose wild population fell to only six birds in 2001 due largely to trapping for the illegal cage-bird trade, and the Javan hawk-eagle (Spizaetus bartelsi, EN), estimated to number around 300-450 surviving pairs.

Biological diversity in Sundaland 2008

She hopped onto his hand as obediently as a tamed cage-bird, and remained quiet and well-behaved.

Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

She hopped onto his hand as obediently as a tamed cage-bird, and remained quiet and well-behaved.

Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

National Association accomplished no other good, the stopping of the cage-bird traffic would be a sufficient reason for its organization.

Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State Various

"If men realised, as they realise that physical illness follows physical excess, that for every moment of pain unnecessarily inflicted upon any living creature -- a horse, a dog, a cage-bird -- they must suffer themselves a worse pang, would not the world be a better place?" he asked.

The Orchard of Tears Sax Rohmer 1921

Miss Beale, rushing across London in a taxi, reminded him of nothing more masterful than a cage-bird turned loose in a tempest.

Number Seventeen 1915

Pothinus finally discovered that he was having some difficulty in keeping his cage-bird contented.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

Agias was head over ears in love with this pretty little cage-bird shut up in

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

So, stupefied with the gaiety of the 'faithful,' drunken with comradeship, scandal and asseveration, Mme. Verdurin, perched on her high seat like a cage-bird whose biscuit has been steeped in mulled wine, would sit aloft and sob with fellow-feeling.

Swann's Way Marcel Proust 1896