Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A finch of the genus Petronia.
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Examples
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Everywhere was the rippling sound of running water, and he heard strange sounds that he knew was life; the twittering of a rock-sparrow, the silver - toned aria of a black-throated thrush down in the fen, the shrill paean of a gorgeously coloured Canada jay exploring for a nesting place in a brake of velvety balsam.
Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903
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