Buphaga

(bu-fa'gah.) [Gr. bous, an ox, and ph ago, I eat.] (Zool.) A S. African bird of the fam. Fringillidæ, and commonly called Beef-eater, or Cattle-picker, from its sitting upon the backs of oxen and other animals to pick out with its beak the maggots ofbot-flies deposited under the hide. [s. 124]