pheasant

This common English bird-nameis applied in Australia to two birds, viz.

1) The Lyre-bird (q.v.).

2) The Lowan (q.v.), and see Turkey.

For Pheasant-fantail, see Fantail.

1877 (before). Australie, `From the Clyde to Braidwood,'quoted in `Australian Ballads and Rhymes' (edition Sladen,p. 10):

«. . . Echoing notes

Of lyre-tailed pheasants, in their own rich notes,

Mocking the song of every forest-bird.»

1885. Wanderer, `Beauteous Terrorist, etc., p. 60:

«And have we no visions pleasant

Of the playful lyre-tail'd pheasant?»

Pheasant
·noun The ruffed grouse. II. Pheasant ·noun Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds...

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Impeyan pheasant
·- An Indian crested pheasant of the genus Lophophorus. Several species are known. Called also monau...

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Sea pheasant
·- The pintail duck. ...

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Water pheasant
·noun The hooded merganser. II. Water pheasant ·- The pintail. ·see <<Pintail>>, ·noun, 1. III. Wa...

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Pheasant Court
1) North-west out of Cow Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). Site now co...

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pheasant-cuckoo
n. another name for the Coucal (q.v.), Centropus phasianellus, Gould.See also Swamp-Pheasant. 1846...

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swamp-pheasant
n. called also Pheasant-cuckoo. Another name for the Coucal (q.v.). 1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland...

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Pheasant Cock Yard
See Pheasant Court. ...

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