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Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On ...
(Vertovec 1992:69) sugar-bird sugar-bird n Tob Coerebaflaveola, a bird, 10 cm (4
′′) long. Head and upperparts black with white streak above eye; white patch
at base of flight feathers on wing; yellow rump; chin and throat grey; rest of ...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ...
CINN YR1S, the name of an unknown bird, Cuv. ; Sugar Bird. In Zoology, a genus
of animals belonging to the family Tenuirostres, order Passeres, class Aves.
Generic character. Beak long and very slender j the mandibles finely serrated ...
Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1845
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Encyclopaedia metropolitana: or Universal dictionary of ...
When transparent and fine in colour, it is included among the gems under the
name of Hyacinth. CINNYR1S, the name of an unknown bird, Cuv.; Sugar Bird. In
Zoology, a genus of animals belonging to the family Tenuirostres, order Passeres
, ...
The sugar bird's feeding behaviour is interconnected with his mating behaviour:
he perches on the furry heads of the fynhos and screeches for a mate, then leaps
into the air and flicks his streaming tail (twice or even thrice the length of his ...
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Kafir essays, and other pieces , with an Engl. tr. [chiefly ...
The sugar-bird builds its beautiful nest, which is very warm, in a tree, it builds and
when it is about to finish it seeks feathers of fowls, and places them that its young
ones may be warm. The sugar-bird is a truly diligent little bird. The Ncede is a ...
Our charters begin and end at Sugar Bird resort, St. Thomas. njoy the tennis
courts, pool, beach, windsurfers and Hobies as well as caribbean charter cruisin .
Take full advantage of this combination with a land & sea gackage—4 days
building ...
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Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa
SUGAR-BIRD. 18 July, to be the same kind of Suiker-vogel (Sugar-bird) * which I
had seen in the vicinity of Cape Town. Their elegance and beauty, added ' to
their soft, delicate, warbling notes, engaged my admiration and attention for a
long ...
William John Burchell, 1822
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Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa
222 SUGAR-BIRD. 18 J 01.1, to be the same kind of Suikerivogel (Sugar-bird) *
which I had seen in the vicinity of Cape Town. Their elegance and beauty, added
'to their sofi, delicate, warbling notes, engaged my admiration and attention for a
...
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A history of inventions and discoveries, tr. by W. Johnston. ...
It was called the sugar-bird, because it was said to be fond of the sugar-cane,
and that it could eat sugar in great abundance. This circumstance seems to be
very singular; for that salt is to many fowls a poison. Experiments have shewn,
that a ...
Johann Beckmann, William Johnston (translator.), 1817
A mated superb blue Australian wren so persecuted a cock yellow-winged blue
sugar-bird that it had to be removed from the aviary (Finn, 1919). It should be
noted that where species are much alike in plumage, but have different notes, as,
...
Edward Allworthy Armstrong, 1942
