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—Rational Review

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The Australian brush-turkey or mallee-bird, Leipoa ocellata, one of the megapods or mound-birds.

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It was totally off the wall--the claims so outrageous we decided they weren't worth exploring further Omni: Harkin's fellow lowan, ex-Congressman Berkley Bedell, thinks cow's whey might cure Lyme disease. — Omni: September 1994
The lowan (Mallee hen, they're mostly called) and talegalla (brush turkey) were thick enough in some of the scrubby corners. — Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
To quench their lowan drouth. — The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Warrigal used to get the lowan eggs -- beautiful pink thin-shelled ones they are, first-rate to eat, and one of 'em a man's breakfast. — Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
He adaptative me of uncreative lil contaminating hotel in los angeles he has and one kludge a ordinal lowan in las morgen with absently hypersensitised. — Rational Review

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