japanese nightingale

japanese nightingale
noun
Usage: usually capitalized J
: an Asiatic hill tit (Leiothrix lutea) that is chiefly olivaceous brown with a yellow breast and red bill and feet and that is often kept as a cage bird — called also Japanese robin

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