[f. BELL sb.1 + BIRD.] A name given to two distinct birds, the Procnias carunculata or Campanero of Brazil, and the Myzantha melanophrys of Australia, both remarkable for their clear ringing notes.
a. 1848. Bp. Stanley, Fam. Hist. Birds, iv. (1854), 60. The Bell-Bird’s note was borne upon the wind.
1868. Wood, Homes without H., xxv. 470. To this group [the Honey-eaters] belong many … species, such as that which produces a sound like the tinkling of a bell and is in consequence called the Bell-bird.
