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1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. viii. 150 The muleteer of Spain, who piques himself on being a maize-eater, and whose honour is not to be questioned without danger.

1878 W. D. Emerson Hist. Indian Corn xi. 293 The rabbit and hare, which might be great maize eaters, are too highly prized as game to be troublesome on a large scale.

1890 Cent. Dict. Maize-eater, a South American maize-bird, Pseudoleistes virescens.

?1919 A. E. Taylor in S. L. Bane & R. H. Lutz Organization Amer. Relief Europe, 1918–19 (1943) vii. 447/3 (table) In consideration of the fact that the peasant of Greater Servia is a maize eater, the total cereals are sufficient to carry the country.

1921 Avicultural Mag. Oct. 150 Another bird I secured..was a Green or Yellow-bellied Maize-eater... The olive-green of this Maize-eater contrasting with a band of canary yellow makes it welcome in a collection of active birds of this type.

2002 K. E. Lane Quito 1599 Introd. 11 Recent analysis shows the ancient Otavalan to have been..a maize eater from about the middle of Peru's Chavín Horizon (c. 500 B.C.E.).