pea-fowl

The flesh of pea-fowl, which I have tasted, is excellent eating, surpassing that of the pheasant.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

Throughout the state one is struck by the great number of wild pea-fowl picking their way through the stubble just as pheasants do.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

Beside pheasants, ducks and geese there are also the various storks, cranes, pea-fowl and herons in the "ornamental fowl" list.

Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller

The tailor-birds, the ashy and the Indian wren-warblers, the brahminy mynas, the wire-tailed swallows, the amadavats, the sirkeer cuckoos, the pea-fowl, the water-hens, the common and the pied mynas, the cuckoo-shrikes and the orioles are all fully occupied with nursery duties.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

For the animals of the time were as immoral as the men: the dog united with the wolf, the cock with the pea-fowl, and many others paid no heed to sexual purity.

The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 Louis Ginzberg 1913

Do we not hear the amazing converse of parrots and note the pea-fowl negotiating admiration from observers?

The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

Does the female pea-fowl consider the male bird, with all his display of colour and movement, a beautiful object?

The Story of the Mind James Mark Baldwin 1897

Provided with several sets of these nooses, a trained bullock and a shield-like cloth screen dyed buff and pierced with eye-holes, the bird-catcher sets out for the jungle, and on seeing a flock of pea-fowl circles round them under cover of the screen and the bullock, which he guides by a nose-string.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

Enjoyed the gentle, southwesterly wind which touched her face and stirred her bright hair, enjoyed the plaintive, autumn song of a robin perched on a rose-grown wall, enjoyed the impotent ferocity of the guardian griffins, enjoyed the small sounds made by the feeding pea-fowl, the modest quaker grays and the imperial splendours of their plumage.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

She ran over the scene in her mind now, as she stood among the pocketing pea-fowl, and it caused her both mirth and delightful little heats, in which the heart has a word to say.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891