Egg-bird

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Egg-bird \Egg"-bird`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
     A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern ({Sterna fuliginosa})
     of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied
     to the tropic bird, {Pha["e]thon flavirostris}.
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