king-bird

I continued also to get specimens of the lovely little king-bird occasionally, as well as numbers of brilliant pigeons, sweet little parroquets, and many curious small birds, most nearly resembling those of Australia and

The Malay Archipelago 2004

After the first king-bird was obtained, I went with my men into the forest, and we were not only rewarded with another in equally perfect plumage, but I was enabled to see a little of the habits of both it and the larger species.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

In addition to the animals already named, the musk-rat, raccoon, fox, flying-squirrel, robin, wren, and king-bird will be found convenient for study in many localities.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

As it grew apace the bluebird, robin, cherry-bird, king-bird, and many more, came with haste and built their nests and warbled in its boughs, and so became orchard-birds and multiplied more than ever.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

He got off the plow, after turning the horses 'heads to the faint western breeze, and took a seat on the fence in the shade of a small popple tree on which a king-bird had a nest.

Short Stories of Various Types Various

As it grew apace, the blue-bird, robin, cherry-bird, king-bird, and many more, came with haste and built their nests and warbled in its boughs, and so became orchard-birds, and multiplied more than ever.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

If ever you saw a crow with a king-bird after him, you have an image of

Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

They saw yellow warblers flicker away, a king-bird swoop, a scarlet tanager glisten in flight.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

Imagine a king-bird, or, for that matter, a mocking-bird or thrasher, submitting with weak good humor to such treatment!

X. Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi 1916

One day I saw what I at first thought was a small yellow-bellied kingfisher hovering over a pond, and finally plunging down to the surface of the water after a school of tiny young fish; but it proved to be a bien-te-vì king-bird.

III. A Jaguar-Hunt on the Taquary 1914