catbird

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

catbird
    n 1: any of various birds of the Australian region whose males
         build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to
         attract females [syn: {bowerbird}, {catbird}]
    2: North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing
       [syn: {catbird}, {grey catbird}, {gray catbird}, {Dumetella
       carolinensis}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Catbird \Cat"bird\, n. (Zool.)
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

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