[Echoic: influenced by JACK sb.1]

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  1.  A local name for the fieldfare.

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1885.  Swainson, Prov. Names Birds, 6. Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) … Jack bird. From its cry. Cf. Chack chack (Luxemburg), Claque (Normandy).

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  2.  ‘A bird of the South Island of New Zealand, Creadion cinereus’ (Morris, Austral Eng.).

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1873.  Sir W. Buller, Birds N. Zealand (1888), I. 23 (Morris). I have … adopted the name of Jack-bird, by which it is known among the settlers in the South Island. Why it should be so called I cannot say, unless this is an adaptation of the native name Ticke … the equivalent, in the Maori vernacular, of our Jack.

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