crow-pheasant

American  

[kroh-fez-uhnt] / ˈkroʊˌfɛz ənt /

noun

1. a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.

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Example Sentences

Other birds that lift up their voices at early dawn are the crow-pheasant, the black partridge and the peacock.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas

The whoot, whoot, whoot of the crow-pheasant booms from almost every thicket.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas

The nest of the crow-pheasant or coucal is a massive structure, globular in shape, with the entrance at one side.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas

It hops about in thick bushes with considerable address, much as a crow-pheasant does.

From Birds of the Indian Hills by Dewar, Douglas

The call of this bird, which continues later in the year than that of the common cuckoo, is not unlike the whoot-whoot-whoot of the crow-pheasant or coucal.

From Birds of the Indian Hills by Dewar, Douglas