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Mockbird

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Mockbird
    (Zoöl) The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. mockbird
    A mocking-bird.
  2. (n) mockbird
    A bird that imitates; a parrot.
Usage in literature

She felt afraid, but perhaps it was the merry mockbird mimicking all those sounds, according to its wonted fashion. "La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages" by Jules Michelet