chowchillan.
/tʃaʊˈtʃɪlə/, U.S. /ˌtʃaʊˈtʃɪlə/, Australian English /tʃæɔˈtʃɪlə/ Australian.
The black-headed log-runner ( Orthonyx spaldingi), a small bird found in the dense scrub of mountain ranges in Queensland.
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1931 N. W. Cayley What Bird is That? 44 Chowchilla (Northern Log-runner) Orthonyx spaldingi...Call, a series of notes, like ‘Chow-chilla-chow-chow-chilla’. It is also said to be a wonderful mimic.
1934 A. C. Chisholm Bird Wonders Austral. xxi. 206 Settlers in northern Queensland know the Black-headed Logrunner not only as the ‘Auctioneer-bird’, but as the ‘Chowchilla’, since, they say, a company of the birds freely shouts, ‘Chow-chilla-chow-chow’.
1958 J. A. Leach Austral. Bird Bk. (ed. 9) 140 Northern Chowchilla..upper black; under white; under base spiny tail smoke-brown;..upper breast orange-rufous.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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