brain-fever bird
Britishnoun
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From a slit in the wall the wheel of the punkah-thong whined insistently,--rise and fall, rise and fall of peevish complaint, distressing as a brain-fever bird.
From Dragon's blood by Henry Milner Rideout
The breast of the newly-fledged brain-fever bird is covered with dark brown drops, so that, when seen from below, it looks like a thrush with yellow legs.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar
The caller drones out the numbers with a monotony only equalled by the brain-fever bird, and quite as disastrous to the nerves.
From War in the Garden of Eden by Kermit Roosevelt
At the mission I used to read about that bird you call the brain-fever bird.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
The brain-fever bird grows more vociferous day by day.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar
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