porphyrion

And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision

Whence we conclude that the unicorn is one of the emblems of chastity, as also is another very strange beast of which Saint Isidor speaks: the porphyrion.

The Cathedral 1877

While it is winter the porphyrion sails down the willowy streams beside the sultan-hen that is to be his love, and sees her not, and stays not her passage upon the water or through the air; she does not live as yet to him.

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

Hebrew _tinshemet_, and the _porphyrion_ of the Seventy?

Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814

Seventy render it by _porphyrion_, which signifies a purple hen, a water-fowl well known in the East.

Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814