A bird which lives outside the dictionaries.
1839.
She sometimes gives a concert, upon a pleasant day, | |
Inviting Mrs. Phebe, the Yellow-bird and Jay; | |
The Cuckoo, and the Katydid, and other company, | |
To warble oer together their various harmony. | |
The Robin, Yale Lit. Mag., iv. 242 (March). |
1854. On the next morning, the blue-bird came again, and brought a phebe with him, and they two sang a kind of duet for my benefit.H. H. Riley, Puddleford, p. 245 (N.Y.).
a. 1854. The crow will cawthe phebee snap at the flies.Dow, Jun., Patent Sermons, iv. 73.