Definition of "organ-bird" [organ-bird]

• One of the crow-shrikes, Gymnorhina organicum, found in Tasmania: a near relative of the Australian piping-crow. (noun)
• In South America, a wren, Cyphorhinus cantans. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And when I listen to Rima's voice, talking in a language I cannot understand, I hear the wind whispering in the leaves, the gurgling running water, the bee among the flowers, the organ-bird singing far, far away in the shadows of the trees."
• "I afterwards found that the bird is called by the Portuguese the realejo, or organ-bird (_Cyphorhinus cantans_)."
• "This is the organ-bird -- the most remarkable songster by far (says Bates) of the Amazonian forests."