water-chat

plural water-chats

1. archaicrarebiologyA classification for certain types of birds.

   We find two species of Eupetes, a curious Malayan genus allied to the forked-tail water-chats; [...] two species of Gracula, the Mynahs of India; and a curious little black Prionochilus, a saw-billed fruit pecker, undoubtedly allied to the Malayan form, although perhaps a distinct genus.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 431

   1. archaicrarebiologyA South American tyrant flycatcher.
   2. archaicrarebiologyA forktail thrush.