scrub fowl
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Will this particular scrub fowl by force of her accidental discovery start a revolutionary change in the life-history of mound-builders generally?
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
For an hour the scrub fowl have been violently noisy, but have retired to the recesses of the jungle, whence comes an occasional chuckle of satisfaction or a coarse, triumphant crow.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Certainly some proportion of the seeds which reach the ground must be borne hither and thither by the agency of that eternal scratcher, the scrub fowl.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
A more unlikely spot for a scrub fowl to lay, could hardly be imagined.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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 E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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