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Icteria longicauda

Chat \Chat\, n.

  1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.

    Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.
    --Pope.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat ( Icteria viridis), and the long-tailed chat ( Icteria longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolid[ae], as the stonechat, and whinchat.

    Bush chat. (Zo["o]l.) See under Bush.