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bush shrike en · NOUN
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An African passerine bird of the family Malaconotidae.
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(obsolete) Any bird of the American family Thamnophilidae; an antshrike.
In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker[,] tanager, bush-shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days' active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 63:
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