crow-pheasant

[kroh-fez-uhnt]

noun

1. a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.

Example Sentences

Brilliant parrots flashed through the tree-tops, incredible horn-bills carried their beaks about, the hypocritical widower-bird flaunted his new mourning, the blue starling, the sun-bird, and the crow-pheasant, with a score of other species, failed to give the gloomy, menacing jungle an air of brightness and life, seemed rather to emphasise its note of gloom, its insistence upon itself as the home of death p. 148where Nature, red in tooth and claw, pursued her cycle of destruction with fierce avidity and wanton masterfulness.

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It is believed that, if a young crow-pheasant is tied by an iron chain to a tree, the mother, as soon as she discovers the captive, will go and fetch a certain root, and by its aid break the chain, which, when it snaps, is converted into gold.

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The call of this bird, which continues later in the year than that of the common cuckoo, is not unlike the whoot-whoot-whoot of the crow-pheasant or coucal.

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It hops about in thick bushes with considerable address, much as a crow-pheasant does.

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The common coucal or crow-pheasant.

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