moor-goody

Updated: May 2, 2025

And with a squeak in chorus the choir disperses, to meet and sing again in a few minutes in another part of the reddening tree. Aptly imitating its most frequent note, blacks have given the name of "Moor-goody," to a sedate little bird rarely seen away from the jungle, and then only in the shadiest of bushes. Many of the birds are distinguished and named in accordance with their notes.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber