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Whistling Dick
Whistling Whis"tling, a. & n. from Whistle, v. Whistling buoy. (Naut.) See under Buoy. Whistling coot (Zo["o]l.), the American black scoter. Whistling Dick. (Zo["o]l.) (a) An Australian shrike thrush (Colluricincla Selbii). (b) The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.] Whistling duck. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The golden-eye. (b) A tree duck. Whistling eagle (Zo["o]l.), a small Australian eagle (Haliastur sphenurus); -- called also whistling hawk, and little swamp eagle. Whistling plover. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The golden plover. (b) The black-bellied, or gray, plover. Whistling snipe (Zo["o]l.), the American woodcock. Whistling swan. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The European whooper swan; -- called also wild swan, and elk. (b) An American swan (Olor columbianus). See under Swan. Whistling teal (Zo["o]l.), a tree duck, as Dendrocygna awsuree of India. Whistling thrush. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of several species of singing birds of the genus Myiophonus, native of Asia, Australia, and the East Indies. They are generally black, glossed with blue, and have a patch of bright blue on each shoulder. Their note is a loud and clear whistle. (b) The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

Meaning of Whistling Dick from wikipedia

- composed the whistling tune, "Listen to the Mocking Bird" This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title Whistling ****. If an internal...
- Whistling **** was a cannon used by Confederate forces during the Siege of Vicksburg in the American Civil War. Named for the sound made when it fired...
- mortar which was known as "Whistling ****" by the British as the hoisting rings on its 15-inch s**** made a peculiar whistling noise when lobbed through...
- mountains and the northwest). Also called the whistling eagle or whistling hawk, it is named for its loud whistling call, which it often gives in flight. Some...
- Company of Barbers and Lord Mayor of London Richard Milburn — known as Whistling ****, he composed the famous tune "Listen to the Mocking Bird". William Johnson...
- "Whistling ****" was the name given to this Confederate 18-pounder because of the peculiar noise made by its projectiles. It was part of the defensive...
- Richard Milburn, known as Whistling ****, was an African-American musician in Philadelphia. He was a great guitarist and whistler and composed bird song...
- For the NPS, he found the Civil War-era cannon Widow Blakely (also Whistling ****) which had been used in the Vicksburg campaign, as well as the wreck...
- known as "O. Henry", a pseudonym that first appeared over the story "Whistling ****'s Christmas Stocking" in the December 1899 issue of McClure's Magazine...
- 30-pounder Parrot 4.2 132.5 4,200 29.0 s**** 6,700/25° *The Confederate "Whistling ****," an obsolete smoothbore siege gun, rifled and banded. Seacoast Artillery...