mopokes

It was all very well for a week or two, but, at the idea of shutting herself wholly up with such mopokes, of cutting herself off from her present vital interests, Laura hastily reconsidered her decision to leave school.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

To see all those learned old mopokes sitting there to-night, solemn as hens on eggs ... it was enough to make a cat laugh.

The Way Home 2003

Spend the whole blessed day, and come home with the mopokes.

A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce 1918

Owls and mopokes hooted dismally, and once a great flapping thing flew into Harry's face, and he uttered a startled yell before he realised that it was only one of the night birds -- whereat mirth ensued at the expense of Harry.

A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce 1918

Aunt Helen dropped to sleep in a short time; but I lay awake listening to the soft distant call of the mopokes in the scrub beyond the stables.

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

Owls and mopokes hooted dismally, and once a great flapping thing flew into Harry's face, and he uttered a startled yell before he realised that it was only one of the night birds – whereat mirth ensued at the expense of Harry.

A Little Bush Maid 1910

Spend the whole blessed day, and come home with the mopokes.

A Little Bush Maid 1910

Other birds of prey, such as sparrow-hawks, owls, and mopokes (a kind of owl), inhabit this region, but they are not numerous.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

The sun suddenly sinks, and the mopokes burst out into horrible peals of semi-human laughter.

Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Adam Lindsay Gordon 1851