pallid cuckoo
noun
An Australian hawk cuckoo, Cuculus pallidus, with variable greyish or rufous plumage (often pale grey in the male); also ( Australian ) called brain-fever bird.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Archibald James Campbell (b. 1853).
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