troupial

troupial
/trooh"pee euhl/, n.
any of several American birds of the family Icteridae, esp. one with brilliantly colored plumage, as Icterus icterus, of South America.
[1815-25; < F troupiale (so called from its gregariousness). See TROOP, -IAL]

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