Suffering the fate of most bright-plumaged birds, immense numbers have been shot annually.
The bird is brightly plumaged with blue and other colors.
Beautifully modelled and plumaged birds form the dish handles, and a simple accessory decoration on the body reveals to perfection the peculiar appearance presented by pate tendre of having the colors sunk in the soft and creamy glaze.
In one scene two finely plumaged wading-birds appeared among the water-lilies in a brook.
He looked at her, and for the hour understood her aright; he saw that there was the love for her country and the power of sacrifice in this gay-plumaged and capricious little hawk of the desert.
The explanation is, of course, that the house-crow absorbs all the attention that man has to bestow upon the sable-plumaged tribe.
He thus furnishes one of the many exceptions to the rule that brilliantly plumagedbirds have no song.
These people allege that if the hens of brightly plumaged species were as showy as the cocks, they would be conspicuous objects when brooding, and so fall easy victims to birds of prey.
To conclude, I may mention that the pet bird my friend kept was of the pale-plumaged species, and never lost the feathers from its head, nor did it acquire any of the characteristic marks of P.
There are also anatomical differences between the two birds; the pale-plumaged species having an ordinary trachea, while A.
At their feet, beyond the veranda, was a garden joyously brilliant, and bright-plumaged birds flitted here and there.
Female duller plumaged and with a less deeply forked tail than the male.
Without any exception, these are the most gaudily plumaged North American birds, but their colors have a harshness of contrast that renders them far less pleasing to the eye than many others of our birds.
This very brilliantly plumaged Oriole is, perhaps, the most abundant of the family in southern Texas.
But Lydie d'Aumont's searching eyes roamed ceaselessly over the gaily plumaged birds that fluttered uninterruptedly before her gaze.
Obviously he had already taken sides in favour of the gaily-plumaged butterfly against the duller moths, whilst Monsieur de Louvois looked hopelessly perturbed.
And truly no man's heart could be sufficiently adamant to deny to that brilliantly-plumaged bird the tit-bits which it loved the best.
It was a pretty sight, and the concourse reminded me of a flock of military starlings, a black or dark-plumaged bird with a scarlet breast, one of my feathered favourites.
In Northern India these jungle cocks are beautifully plumaged with red, yellow, and dark green feathers and long tails.
With a measured flapping of wings a brilliantly plumaged hornbill passed over our heads.
The noise of laughter and chatter was incessant, like unto a crowd of gaily-plumaged birds.
The dull-plumaged birds are always very much more numerous than the bright-coloured males, though Azara strangely asserts that the sexes are alike.
The male is frequently seen perched on the summit of a bush, and, amidst the dull-plumaged species that people the grey thickets of Patagonia, the bright red bosom gives it almost a gay appearance.
Amongst the dull-plumaged Patagonian species it certainly has a very brilliant appearance.
Darwin also separated the sexes, and gave the name of Lichenops erythropterus to the red-plumaged bird.
The female is paler-plumaged than the male, and has less red on the breast.
This beautiful little golden-plumaged Finch, the male distinguished from his consort by a brighter yellow colour and a black head, is extremely common throughout the entire length of the Argentine country from Brazil to Patagonia.
This diminutive dark-plumaged species is the smallest of our Hirundines.
Azara discovered it in Paraguay, and described the brown-plumaged female as a distinct species.
Thus, the male of Cnipolegus Hudsoni, an intensely black-plumaged species with a concealed white wing-band, takes his stand on a dead twig on the summit of a bush.
Meanwhile, the dull-plumaged female is not seen and not heard: for not even a skulking crake lives in closer seclusion under the herbage--so widely have the sexes diverged in this species.
I have since frequently seen the full-plumaged ones while uttering that note in the spring.
There was one full-plumaged Yellow-crowned Warbler (Sylvia coronata) among them, and I saw that the others were the young birds of that season.
Sometimes a gray-breasted immature female would be paired with a rich plumaged male, or again both mates would be in full color; but I encountered many pairs in which both parents showed the light grayish breast of adolescence.
This handsome and entirely different plumaged species from any of the preceding would, from appearance, be better placed in the group with the White-throated Sparrow than its present position.
Full plumaged adult birds have very brilliant carmine shoulders and tail coverts, a saffron colored tail, and a lengthened tuft of bright rosy feathers on the foreneck.
Full plumaged adults of this species are wholly bright scarlet, except for the primaries, which are black.
Monkeys and brilliantly-plumaged touracos, or crested parrots, of a dark green, with purple and crimson tails and wings, filled the belt of the wood along the river with their discordant chattering.
Now and then gaily-plumaged birds were seen flitting amid the thick shade; but we were surprised at the paucity of animal life which existed.
This bird, like so many bright plumaged ones, is no songster, and has only a sort of shrill call note.
In the case of some, not only is the female larger, but of such a different aspect and dull sandy colour that it is really difficult to believe that it is in any way related to the startlingly plumaged black and white male bird.
I deemed it advisable to go further down the mountain where the vegetation was more plentiful, and where I might find fruits, and possibly game--though game did not seem to be plentiful, but brilliant plumaged birds were numerous.
We saw occasional pigeons and many beautiful plumaged birds, among which were parrots and paroquets that kept up a noisy clatter.
There was no sign of life save brilliant plumaged birds flitting about, and bright colored butterflies glancing in the sunshine.
There can not be the slightest doubt that these three differently plumaged birds all belong to one species, though Mr. Whitehead was inclined to believe that the dark and rufous forms represented distinct species.
In the full-plumaged bird the bars encroach upon the pink area of breast and are more strongly developed on sides and flanks than in less mature individuals.
Considerable difference exists in the full-plumaged males with regard to the amount and intensity of the black stripes on the back.
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