1) Bowerbird 2) Exclusively Saxon word 3) Exclusively Anglo word 4) Familiar feathered friend 5) Oscine 6) Oscine bird 7) Source of overhead mews 8) Type of seat 9) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 10) Word of purely Anglo origin 1) Bowerbird 
Several unrelated groups of songbirds are called catbirds because of their wailing calls, which resemble a cat`s meowing. The genus name Ailuroedus likewise is from the Greek for `cat-singer` or `cat-voiced`. Australasian catbirds are the genera Ailuroedus and the monotypic Scenopooetes. They belong to the bowerbird family (Ptilonorhynchidae)...
• (n.) An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.
any of several bird species named for their mewing calls, which are used in addition to song. The North American catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), ...
Cat'bird noun (Zoology) An American bird ( Galeoscoptes Carolinensis ), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat. 
[n] - North American songbird whose call resembles a cat`s mewing
gray catbird noun North American songbird whose call resembles a cat`s mewing