Pharaoh's chicken

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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.