wattle-bird

Every magpie, minah, and wattle-bird within a mile joins in the clamour.

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 George Dunderdale 1862

Its colour is pale yellow with brown spots and stripes on it; the spots about the head and upper arms are much darker than the others; about the stomach are little things resembling the wattles of the wattle-bird, they are of a brilliant white colour.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

He was right: there was the hideous, unearthly cry of the laughing-jackass, called often the bushman's clock; the screaming cry of thousands of parrots flying here and there through the forest; there was the cackle of the wattle-bird, the clear notes of the magpie, and the confused chattering of thousands of leather-heads; while many other birds added their notes to the discordant chorus, and speedily banished sleep from the eyes of their hearers.

The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The wattle-bird, so called, because it has two wattles under its beak as large as those of a small dunghill-cock, is larger, particularly in length, than an English black-bird.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784

Among the small birds I must not omit to particularize the wattle-bird, poy-bird, and fan-tail, on account of their singularity, especially as I find they are not mentioned in the narrative of my former voyage.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784

Among the small birds I must not omit to particularize the wattle-bird, poy-bird, and fan-tail, on account of their singularity, especially as I find they are not mentioned in the narrative of my former voyage.

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 James Cook 1753

The wattle-bird, so called, because it has two wattles under its beak as large as those of a small dunghill-cock, is larger, particularly in length, than an English black-bird.

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 James Cook 1753