locust-bird

Updated: May 11, 2025

They usually begin their march, or flight, after sunrise, and encamp at sunset and woe betide the luckless farmer on whose lands they chance to fix their temporary abode. Locust-swarms are followed by a little bird named springkaan-vogel or locust-bird which comes in such dense flocks as almost to darken the air.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - The Settler and the Savage

The eagle, pheasant, capercailzie, quail, parrot, locust-bird, becafico, and humming-bird are rare; the remainder are all tolerably common. Besides these, we know that in ancient times ostriches wore found within the limits of the Empire, though now they have retreated further south into the Great Desert of Arabia.

George Rawlinson - The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4: Babylon : The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.