Morepoke

[I]t was better fun wandering about with the old man at night than moping in my hut, listening to the morepoke.

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Where's that old morepoke? O, you're there, are you? Fetch the jack off o' your wagon—come! fly roun'! you're (very) slow for a young fellow.

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We were a family of odd bods and every summer we spent by the river. At night the morepokes called again and again.

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As soon as the shades of evening close in over the Australian forest, the ear is startled by the cry of "morepoke," clearly and loudly repeated, and a bird as large as an owl flits by on noiseless wing, like the goat-sucker at home. This is the Morepoke, a species of large night-jar,^([sic]) all head and mouth, about the size of an owl.

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