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phoebe bird
2. Ornithology. Each of three small North American tyrant flycatchers constituting the genus Sayornis; esp. (more fully eastern phoebe) S. phoebe, which has a greyish-brown back, head, and wings and pale underparts and is common in the eastern part of the continent. Also phoebe bird.
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1700 J. Green Diary 4 Mar. in Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. (1866) VIII. 216 Cloudy & rainy. heard a Phebe and other birds sing.
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer ii. 40 That [sc. a nest] of a swallow was affixed in the corner next to the house that of a phebe in the other.
1839 W. Irving Birds of Spring in Knickerbocker May 434 Another of our feathered visitors..is the Pe-wit, or Pe-wee, or Phœbe-bird... They arrive early in the spring... Their first chirp spreads gladness through the house. ‘The Phœbe-birds have come!’ is heard on all sides.
1860 W. Hooker Nat. Hist. xv. 153 The Phebe-bird, which utters its pe-wee so continuously, is one of this family.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 765/2 Plain, dull-colored peewee or phœbe, sitting on the house~gable or on a dead branch..catching insects, or reiterating his own name, ‘phœbe, phœbe’.
1931 Ecology 12 30 (table) Eastern phoebe.
1947 E. B. White Lett. (1976) 284 I haven't been doing much of anything—just..watching phoebes through binoculars, and mixing drinks.
1990 Birder's World Aug. 12/3 Highlights for us were a..Mountain Plover, a Say's Phoebe, and Horned Larks.
1997 E. Hand Glimmering ii. xi. 235 There was the nightly confusion of phoebes and chickadees in the whitepines by the boathouse, trying to decide if it was really time to roost.
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