barking-bird

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noun The name of a rock-wren, Pteroptochus or Hylactes tarni, of the island of Chiloë: also said to be applied to another and smaller species, P. rubecula.

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An allied species, but rather larger, is called by the natives "Guid-guid" (Pteroptochos Tarnii), and by the English the barking-bird.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003
An allied species, but rather larger, is called by the natives "Guid-guid" (Pteroptochos Tarnii), and by the English the barking-bird.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003
An allied species, but rather larger, is called by the natives Guid-guid (Pteroptochos Tarnii), and by the English the barking-bird.

Chapter XIII 1909
An allied species, but rather larger, is called by the natives "Guid-guid" (Pteroptochos Tarnii), and by the English the barking-bird.

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
The stillness of the moonlight night is not interrupted by the screeching of opossums and flying squirrels, nor by the monotonous note of the barking-bird and little owlet; no native dog is howling round our camp in the chilly morning: the cricket alone chirps along the water-holes; and the musical note of an unknown bird, sounding like "gluck gluck" frequently repeated, and ending in a shake, and the melancholy wail of the curlew, are heard from the neighbouring scrub.

Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830