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Definition of Pheasant coucal
1. Noun. Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pheasant Coucal
Literary usage of Pheasant coucal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Zoological Miscellany: Being Descriptions of New Or Interesting Animals by William Elford Leach (1814)
"pheasant coucal. Variegated with yellow, black, and rufous; head, neck, ...
The pheasant coucal inhabits New Holland, where it is well known under the title ..."
2. List of the Vertebrated Animals Now Or Lately Living in the Gardens of the by London Zoo (London, England), Philip Lutley Sclater (1883)
"pheasant coucal. Hab. New South Wales. a. Purchased, March 5, 1872. See PZS 1872, p.
603. Genus CROTOPHAGA. 480. Crotophaga ani, Linn. Ani. Hab. ..."