avadavat

Etymology
Variant of earlier, from , city in Gujarat, India, from which the bird was imported to Europe.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various estrildid finches of the genus, especially the red avadavat, , of India and Southeast Asia, commonly kept and bred as a cagebird; also known as Java sparrow.
 * 2) * c. 1785,, "Elegy on the Lamented Death of an Avadavat" (undated manuscript preserved by his wife Elizabeth Ann Linley Sheridan is printed in Clementina Black, The Linleys of Bath (London: Martin Secker, 1911), pp. 180-81:
 * And now it has flown to new scenes of delight,
 * Where Venus's pigeons long cooing have sat,
 * While Lesbia's famed sparrow with envy moults white
 * And the Muses all chrip to the Avadavat.
 * 1) * 1819,, "The Eve of Saint Mark", (text of unfinished manuscript printed in berefrois, August 13, 2013):
 * And the warm angled winter screen,
 * On which were many monsters seen,
 * Call’d doves of Siam, Lima mice,
 * And legless birds of Paradise,
 * Macaw, and tender Avadavat,
 * And silken-furr’d Angora cat.
 * And silken-furr’d Angora cat.