yellow-winged

In the previous post I discussed bird predation in the megadermatids (the false vampires or yellow-winged bats).

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

Megadermatids, the false vampires or yellow-winged bats, are a group of the Old World and Australasian tropics.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

Though I came to this resolve from impulse, I think that I took the course which was in effect the most prudent, for the cheerfulness of spirits which I was thus enabled to retain discouraged the yellow-winged angel, and prevented him from taking a shot at me.

Eothen 2003

For a short time after the yellow-winged monoplane had mounted and turned south and westward over the vapory river, the boys had a new sensation.

On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland

Nothing less than a beautiful little yellow-winged moth that was caught and was beating his wings and fluttering to get out.

The Cheerful Cricket and Others Jeannette Augustus Marks 1919

I was once trying to catch a yellow-winged wood - pecker in its nest when my arm became twisted and lodged in the deep hole so that I could not get it out without the aid of a knife; but we were a long way from home and my only companion was a deaf mute cousin of mine.

Indian Boyhood 1902

I was once trying to catch a yellow-winged woodpecker in its nest when my arm became twisted and lodged in the deep hole so that I could not get it out without the aid of a knife; but we were a long way from home and my only companion was a deaf-mute cousin of mine.

Indian Child Life Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

I was once trying to catch a yellow-winged woodpecker in its nest when my arm became twisted and lodged in the deep hole so that I could not get it out without the aid of a knife; but we were a long way from home and my only companion was a deaf mute cousin of mine.

Indian Boyhood Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

If yellow-winged locusts appear in a man's house, the master of the house will die and that house will be overthrown.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

Before the burrows of _Cerceris tuberculus_ and other devourers of the weevil, and before that of the yellow-winged Sphex, the slayer of crickets, there is plenty of distraction, owing to the busy movements of the community.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869