Rice'-bird, n.

n. (Ornith.) (a.) A beautiful Asiatic bird of the finch family, so named from its depredations in rice-fields. It is the Amadina (Loxia) oryzivora, of a rich, bloomy lead color, and is called also paddy-bird and Java sparrow. (b.) A bird of the United States, the Dolichonyx (or Emberiza) oryzivora, so named from its feeding on rice in the Southern States; reed-bird. In New England, it is called bobolink, or Bob-lincon. Wilson.