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1858 G. A. Sala Journey due North 92 Why any breakfast of mine should be offered to Petersen I know no more than why the celebrated Oozly bird should hide his head in the sand, and whistle through the nape of his neck.

1899 W. T. Goodge Hits! Skits! & Jingles! 6 It's a curious bird, the Oozlum, And a bird that's mighty wise, For it always flies tail-first to Keep the dust out of its eyes!

1917 E. Wallace in Windsor Mag. Apr. 573/1 That, or those,..are the footprints of the mighty swoozlum bird, that barks with its eyes an' lives on buttered toast an' hardware.

1968 Listener 6 June 750/1 Shedding public involvement always seems to herald the adoption of a course perilously close to the antics of the oozalem bird.

1974 P. Cave Dirtiest Picture Postcard xvii. 113 The fabulous oozlum bird, which flies round in ever-decreasing circles until it disappears up its own arsehole in a puff of blue smoke.

1992 Personal Computer World Mar. 216/1 One could argue that there's an oozelum bird problem here: if one is designing a window, how can one use window controls to scroll around the design, when they might instead be objects added to the design?