Nightfowl

Upon the middle of the night, Waking she heard the nightfowl crow: The cock sung out an hour ere light

Now this wilderness was so utterly waste that not even the barking of a dog or the sound of a nightfowl could be heard.

He could see the ghostly outline of the distant peaks of the mountains, he could hear the haunting cries of nightfowl and coyote; but these things failed to interest him.

An eagle? No, that could scarcely be; eagles were not nightfowl, nor would one descend this close to humans.