Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The large Australian ground-cuckoo, Centropus phasianellus, which by its size, long tail, and spotted plumage suggests a pheasant. See
pheasant .
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Examples
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The wood-duck (Bernicla jubata) abounded on the larger water-holes which we passed; and the swamp-pheasant (Centropus Phasianus, GOULD) was heard several times among the trees surrounding the grassy hollows.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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a swamp-pheasant would fly shrieking from the branches above.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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