brain-fever bird
Britishnoun
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During the earlier part of the month the notes of the koel and the brain-fever bird are heard on rare occasions; before October has given place to November, these noisy birds cease to trouble.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar
He was singing in a high-pitched tuneless voice, and his song seemed to enrage the "brain-fever" bird in the mango tree, where he had hidden silent since the dawn.
From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
There are two species of brain-fever bird that disport themselves in the Himalayas.
From Birds of the Indian Hills by Douglas Dewar
From the woods all about came the songs of birds,—among them the contributions of a couple of birds which I was not then acquainted with: the brain-fever bird and the coppersmith.
From Following the Equator, Part 6 by Mark Twain
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
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