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noun. Any of various birds that frequent rice fields.

noun. Another name of the reed-bird: applied to the bobolink in the fall, when it is in yellowish plumage and feeds largely on wild rice (Zizania aquatica), or, in the southern United States, upon cultivated rice, to which it does much damage.

noun. The paddy-bird, Padda oryzivora, well known in confinement as the Java sparrow, and common in China, etc.

noun. In Texas, the crow-blackbird, Quiscalus quiscula; in the Sandwich Islands, a subspecies of the Mexican purple fiuch, Carpodacus mexicanus obscurus.

noun. The Java sparrow.

noun. The bobolink.

noun. The Java sparrow.

noun. The bobolink.

noun. migratory American songbird

noun. small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields

"I believe it the least effective of the various things devised by the Igorot to protect his rice from the multitudes of ti-lin '-- the small, brown ricebird [25] found broadly over the Archipelago."

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