scrub fowl
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A dog retrieving a scrub fowl, which had fallen in the vicinity of an "Ahm-moo" tree, emerged with it entirely enveloped with the seeds and adhering rubbish, and itself almost helpless from a similar cause.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
A gleeful chuckle followed by a discordant crow dissipated doubt-the stone had been dislodged by an industrious scrub fowl raking on the brink of the ravine.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
Where the rock does not emerge from the surface, the black soil is loose and kept in perpetual cultivation by scrub fowl, the wonder being that earth reposes at such an angle.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
A more unlikely spot for a scrub fowl to lay, could hardly be imagined.
From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
The channel-billed cuckoo shrieks her discordant warning of the approaching wet season; and the scrub fowl utters those far-off imitations of the exclamation of civilised hens.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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