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John Ames was occupied in plucking the guinea-fowls he had brought in yesterday.

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram

I admit that I behaved like a coward before the lions, but to tell the truth, you sat perched on the tree like guinea-fowls.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

For guinea-fowls, see Gosse's 'Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica,' p.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. by Darwin, Charles

Nicasio is in advance of me, tracking a company of guinea-fowls, whose melodious chirp has caught his accustomed ear.

From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Goodman, Walter

There is not very much shooting in this neighbourhood; a few guinea-fowls and grouse, and an occasional hare, have been bagged, but even these are scarce.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)