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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pied a.  Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. “Pied coats.” --Burton. “Meadows trim with daisies pied.” --Milton.
 Pied antelope Zool., the bontebok.
 Pied-billed grebe Zool., the dabchick.
 Pied blackbird Zool., any Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus.
 Pied finch Zool. (a) The chaffinch. (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.]
 Pied flycatcher Zool., a common European flycatcher (Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dab·chick n.  Zool. A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 pied-billed grebe
      n : American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill [syn: Podilymbus
           podiceps]