hoopoos

It swarmed with sand-antelope and Gurnuk: the ground-squirrels haunted every ant-hill, hoopoos and spur-fowls paced among the thickets, in the trees we heard the frequent cry of the Gobiyan and the bird facetiously termed from its cry “Dobo-dogon-guswen,” and the bright-coloured hawk, the Abodi or Bakiyyah29, lay on wing high in the cloudless air.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

On the telegraph wire are butcher birds, hoopoos, kingfishers, and a vivid blue bird a little like a jay, the roller bird I believe.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

Gurnuk: the ground-squirrels haunted every ant-hill, hoopoos and spur - fowls paced among the thickets, in the trees we heard the frequent cry of the Gobiyan and the bird facetiously termed from its cry "Dobo-dogon - guswen," and the bright-coloured hawk, the Abodi or Bakiyyah [29], lay on wing high in the cloudless air.

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855