Other native birds include the eastern bluebird, grey catbird and perhaps the common ground dove. It is eaten by the green catbird and Lewin's honeyeater. On sailing ships, the catbird seat is the crow's nest, a lookout. The Abyssinian catbird ("Parophasma galinieri") represents a monotypic genus from Africa. The gray catbird is a migratory species. Barber is mentioned in "The Catbird Seat", a 1942 short story by James Thurber. "The Catbird Seat" (1942) is a short story by James Thurber. The gray catbird can be attracted by "pishing" sounds. The catbird tends to avoid dense, unbroken woodlands, and does not inhabit coniferous, pine woodland. Other native birds, including the grey catbird, have suffered from the same causes. It is the only member of the "catbird" genus Dumetella. Little is known about the breeding biology of the black catbird. The range of the black catbird is small and dwindling further due to habitat loss. The first radar flight on Lockheed Martin's CATBird avionics test-bed occurred in November 2008. At in length and in mass, the black catbird is the smallest of the mimids.