Beneath the odorous shade of these magnificent trees fluttered and warbled a little world of brilliantly
plumaged birds.
Monkeys scampered about the deserted ruins, and gaily
plumaged birds flitted in and out among the columns and the galleries far above; but no sign of human presence was discernible.
As the gaily
plumaged creature fluttered to earth its companions and the little monkeys set up a most terrific chorus of wails and screaming protests.
Brilliantly
plumaged birds with raucous voices darted from tree to tree.
And so, for a whole year, he sought to accumulate the most exquisite specimens that he could find of textile and embroidered work, getting the dainty Delhi muslins, finely wrought with gold-thread palmates and stitched over with iridescent beetles' wings; the Dacca gauzes, that from their transparency are known in the East as "woven air," and "running water," and "evening dew"; strange figured cloths from Java; elaborate yellow Chinese hangings; books bound in tawny satins or fair blue silks and wrought with fleurs-de-lis, birds and images; veils of lacis worked in Hungary point; Sicilian brocades and stiff Spanish velvets; Georgian work, with its gilt coins, and Japanese Foukousas, with their green-toned golds and their marvellously
plumaged birds.
However, over the past two years, sightings of the pink-white
plumaged birds have been rare apart from the wetlands of the Governorate of Al Wusta region.
melanocephalus) is brilliantly
plumaged, ground dwelling bird that shows high sexual dimorphism (Birdlife International, 2015).
He drew the reader's attention to the dense scrub where once trees had stood,
plumaged by invaders from lands nearby in their search for timber to turn into charcoal for cooking.
I have even seen this
plumaged menace scare the living daylights out of a neighbour's cat that ventured into my garden.
A[cedilla]Peacock is the name for the colourfully
plumaged male peafowl and females are called peahens.
In my notebook, my journal, were all the sketches I had been making of the spectacularly
plumaged Lady Ross' Violet Plaintain-eater.