The Rufous-throated Sunbirds were the most common sunbirds at the Cocoa Research Station.
All the cock sunbirds (Arachnechthra asiatica) are now in the full glory of their nuptial plumage.
Bright sunbirdsflit from bloom to bloom, now hovering in the air on rapidly-vibrating wings, now dipping their slender curved bills into the calyces.
Most of the cock sunbirds cast off their workaday plumage and assumed their splendid metallic purple wedding garment in November and December, a few, however, do not attain their full glory until January.
Throughout April the little cock sunbirdsdeliver themselves of their vigorous canary-like song.
Some of the sunbirds are still in undress plumage; a few have not yet come into song, these give vent only to harsh scolding notes.
The cock sunbirds are singing brilliantly although they are still wearing their workaday garments, which are quaker brown save for one purple streak along the median line of the breast and abdomen.
Throughout the month the cock sunbirds sing as lustily and almost as brilliantly as canaries; many of them are beginning to reassume the iridescent purple plumage which they doffed some time ago.
I may here mention that sunbirds do not live exclusively upon honey: they vary this diet with minute insects which they pick off flowers and leaves.
Let me take this opportunity of remarking that cobweb affords a most important building material to bird masons; it is their cement, and many species, such as sunbirds and flycatchers, use it most unsparingly.
It is not very easy to distinguish between these two sunbirds unless specimens are held in the hand, when the violet-black abdomen of the purple species can be easily distinguished from the snuff-brown lower parts of Loten's.
The sunbirds were the first, and the koels the last, to go.
Sunbirds are tiny feathered exquisites which vary in length from 3-1/2 to 5 inches, including a bill of considerable length for the size of the bird.
Sunbirds have long, slender, curved bills and tubular tongues, hence they are admirably equipped to secure the honey hidden away in the calyces of flowers.
Sunbirds are always literally bubbling over with energy.
To count them was impossible, because sunbirds are never still for two seconds together.
Twenty-nine species of sunbirds are described as belonging to the Indian Empire, but most of them are only local in their distribution.
The sunbirds (Arachnechthra asiatica) were the leading minstrels.
The nest is a hanging one, and is usually suspended from a branch of a bush or a tree, and not infrequently from the rafter of the verandah of an inhabited bungalow; sunbirds show little fear of man.
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