kilkal

Updated: May 4, 2025

We know it to be an old importation in Europe, although there are traditions about its appearing in the fourteenth century, when Moslems sold it to Christians as the "Jerusalem cock," and Christians to Moslems as the "bird of Meccah." The Hausa Moslems make the Guinea fowl cry, "Kilkal! kilkal!"

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1