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My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes a clatter with its bill against a dead bough, or some old pales, calling it a jar-bird.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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18th-c. British nickname for the nuthatch.
October 21, 2008