scrub turkey

Then the long-suffering storekeeper stopped credit, and for a while we lived on what we could grow, with scrub turkey, and once or twice bandicoot.

We spent a pleasant hour with this man, and returned home by a different route, in the hope of getting a "plain" turkey—an altogether different bird from the "scrub" turkey.

Feeling hungry as the morning went on, he penetrated a thick scrub in the hope of finding a scrub turkey's nest.

This was to consist of roast scrub turkey and plum pudding, washed down by Battle axe brandy.

Possibly the track deviated to follow the run of a scrub turkey, or because the boys knew of a scrub hen's mound, where the rich pink eggs were raked out by the gins.