Pharaoh's chicken

English

Noun

Pharaoh's chicken (plural Pharaoh's chickens)

1. Alternative form of pharaoh's chicken
   • 1883 September, Harriet C. W. Stanton, “Poets and Birds: A Criticism”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 52, page 346:

     As for the eagle of Scripture, it is believed to be not merely "as often as not," but invariably, the vulture ; not Pharaoh's chicken, however, but the griffon vulture.

   • 1974, Philip S. Callahan, The Magnificent Birds of Prey, page 22:

     This strange bird, known in literature as the "Pharaoh's chicken," is a tool-user. Unlikely as it may seem, this places the lowly Pharaoh's chicken with man and higher primates as users of eating utensils.

   • 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 84:

     Leave them for Pharoah's chickens, sailing up on their wide black-tipped wings on the thermals, rising in lazy circles before dropping to ground, graceful as circus acrobats, to hunch and tear.