Scalie

While we were there a couple of scalies came out and started up the street, but seeing the strikers there they turned around and went back into the saloon.

In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.

In Dallas, women scalies cursed women pickets; four pickets went to jail for disorderly conduct while the scalies went on to work.

[…] even allowing for the detours through the back roads to avoid the "scalies" who man the highway truck-weight checking stations.

Approaching Port Augusta I had lights flashed at me, warning that the weighbridge was open. I expected this because the scalies had passed me on the road earlier.

Scalies are stationed 24/7 on the northern outskirts of the Towers to ensure no one does tries to do a rat-run. The weight limit might soon impact on a large number of jobs.

About the same size as the valley quail and the Gambel's quail, the scaled quail is often referred to as the "drab shirttail relative." Gray-blue in color (often known locally as "blue quail"), with a slight black tipping of the chest and breast plumage that creates scalelike markings, (hence the nickname "scalies"), […]

I sensed the birds' presence, but I had no idea if they were Gambel's or scalies, even though the habitat read scaled quail.