The other sunbird commonly seen in hill-gardens is one appropriately named the tiny sun bird or honeysucker (Arachnecthra minima), being less than two-thirds the size of a sparrow.
The purple-rumped sunbird (Arachnecthra zeylonica), which is very abundant in and about Madras, does not ascend the Nilgiris above 3000 feet.
In January the sprightly little metallic purple sunbird pours forth, from almost every tree or bush, his powerful song, which, were it a little less sharp, might easily be mistaken for that of a canary.
When a sunbird does make a mistake and place its nest in an unsuitable place, the predaceous crows devour the young ones, as they did recently in the case of a nest built in the middle of an ingadulsis hedge in my compound at Fyzabad.
At his best the purplesunbird sings as sweetly as a canary.
There is no month in the year in which I have not seen a cock purple sunbird in nuptial plumage.
Moreover, a purple sunbird which is being kept in an aviary in England assumes eclipse plumage for a short period each year at the beginning of winter.
The immunity of the sunbird is due chiefly to the inaccessibility of the nest.
In conclusion, I should like to settle one disputed point in the economy of the purple sunbird (A.
The nest of the sunbird is one of the most wonderful pieces of architecture in the world, and it is the work of the hen alone.
The Yellow Sunbird (Arachnechthra zeylonica) 80 Nest of Loten's Sunbird 82 (Notice that it is built in a spider's web.
If the cock Loten's sunbirdis clothed in purple and fine linen, that of the yellow species (A.
A sunbird in my compound completely covered her nest with the paper shavings that had once formed the packing for a tin of biscuits.
It is true that the cock sunbird never takes a turn on the nest; he is not a family man, but a gay young spark, who goes about bravely attired, with his hand upon the handle of his sword, ready to draw it upon the least provocation.
This sunbirdwas abundant in the coconut palms at Siamil Island.
This sunbirdwas common around flowers at Kalabakan and Brantian Estate.
Specimens of the flaming sunbirdcollected by Whitehead were inadvertently described by Grant as new under the name Cinnyris excellens.
The nest built by this sunbird differs considerably from that made by Æ.
This sunbird shows great variability in the color of the breast, some specimens having an amount of orange approximating, but never quite equaling, that displayed by C.
From the mangroves overhanging the stream we obtained several nests of a sunbird (Arachnechthra, sp.
Then came close to him a wonderfully-tinted parroquet, and then a lustroussunbird began to dart about in an open space.
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