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Java sparrow

noun

  1. a finchlike weaverbird, Padda oryzivora, of southeastern Asia, having gray plumage tinged with pink on the belly, often kept as a cage bird.


Java sparrow

noun

  1. a small grey-and-pink finchlike Indonesian weaverbird, Padda oryzivora: a popular cage bird
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of Java sparrow1

First recorded in 1860–65
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Java sparrows are known to be socially monogamous, showing mutual courtship and pair-bonding for a long time.

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Lund’s allegorical novel imagines a boy with a Java sparrow living in his rib cage.

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Previously, similar kinds of tests have shown that rats, Java sparrows, and monkeys can understand the difference between speech and random noise without being specifically trained to identify a language.

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Male Java sparrows are songbirds — and, scientists reported on Wednesday, natural percussionists.

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Hold!—apropos, to the lying-in list—at Mrs. Barbara Winterbloom's, to inquire after the Angola kittens, and the last hatch of Java sparrows.

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