boatswain bird

noun

tropic bird.

Origin of boatswain bird

1865-1870

First recorded in 1865-70

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There was not a boatswain bird within fifty miles of where we had been, and the specimens had evidently been cured for years.

London in the Sixties One of the Old Brigade

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