plumage

• This plumage is soon followed by the fall or winter plumage, in which the blue feathers of the back are fringed with rusty, and young and old birds are then alike in color Range._--Eastern United States west to the Rocky Mountains; nests from the Gulf States to Manitoba and Nova Scotia; winters from southern New England southward 1a. —  Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State
• On a bank to our right there's a whole crowd of large birds--as we get closer I can count their feathers with my glasses; they are not beauties--vultures of some kind, and gorged at that, to judge from their lazy movements; their plumage is a grey, chocolate colour; their lean bare neck and heads are black or deep plum colour. —  From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
• They would hop on a rock in mid-stream and bob up and down in a most solemn but comical manner for a moment before plunging fearlessly into the cold white spray of the falls or the swift dashing current, where they would disappear below the surface only to reappear once more on another rock to bob again A ducking did not trouble the ouzels, for as they came out of the water the liquid rolled in crystal drops from their feathers and their plumage was as dry as if it had never been submerged. —  The Black Wolf Pack
• "This pretty dark bird with the black and white and crimson plumage is the rain-bird--the blue-billed gaper; and this softly-feathered fellow with the bristles at the side of his bill is a trogon A trogon, sir Yes, Nat, a trogon; and these little bamboo skewers tell me directly that the birds came from somewhere in the East I looked at him wonderingly Yes, Nat," he continued, "from the East, where the bamboo is used for endless purposes. —  Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas
• "The difficulty is to bring them down without hurting their plumage, which is extremely delicate. —  Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas

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