native companion

American  

noun

Ornithology.

1. brolga.

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native companion British  

noun

1. another name for the brolga

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Etymology

Origin of native companion

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

The brolga, or native companion, is a handsome Australian bird of the crane family.

From Peeps At Many Lands: Australia by Spence, Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton)

He said to himself, "That is not a horseman, nor an emu, nor a native companion, nor a swagman, nor a kangaroo."

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

Duck, native companion, white crane, and sacred ibis abound here.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall

Malcolm understood instantly that his native companion had found the ekka-wallah more communicative.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

The woods astonished my native companion Yuranigh; who remarked that they were trees belonging to the sea coast at Sydney.

From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas