rain crow
noun
1 US the yellow-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus, and the black-billed cuckoo, C. erythrophthalmus.
2 Caribbean the mangrove cuckoo, Coccyzus minor, and the great lizard cuckoo, Saurothera merlini.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809).