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ˈice-bird Ornith.
1. The little auk or sea-dove.
1620J. Mason New-found-land (1867) A iv b, The sea fowles are Sea Pigeons, Ice Birds, Bottle noses. 1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 78, I saw also..a very beautiful Ice⁓bird, which was so tame, that we might have taken him. 1777G. Forster Voy. round World I. 110 A small black and white bird, which some called an ice-bird. 1802G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 267 Ice-bird, a name for the Rotche or Little Auk.
2. The Indian night-jar, Caprimulgus asiaticus.
1862T. C. Jerdon Birds India I. §112. 197 Its usual note..is like the sound of a stone scudding over ice (hence it is sometimes called the Ice-bird). |