water-chat
nounEtymology Mainly used in the 19th-century.
- We find two species of Eupetes, a curious Malayan genus allied to the forked-tail water-chats; [...] two species of Gracula, the Mynahs of India; and a curious little black Prionochilus, a saw-billed fruit pecker, undoubtedly allied to the Malayan form, although perhaps a distinct genus.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 431:
- Related terms
- waterthrush