A bird which lives outside the dictionaries.

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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 o’er together their various harmony.
‘The Robin,’ Yale Lit. Mag., iv. 242 (March).    

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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.).

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a. 1854.  The crow will caw—the phebee snap at the flies.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ iv. 73.

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