black-banded

(Somehow one always watches that tiny head, and its yoke of yellow around the neck, all lifted marginally above the water's surface, and miss the whipcord of black-banded green that lashes behind.)

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2010

Female zebra finches apparently swoon for a red band on a fella males prefer black-banded females.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

Female zebra finches apparently swoon for a red band on a fella males prefer black-banded females.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

A number of reptiles are endemic, including the massive Oenpelli python (Morelia oenpelliensis), as are a number of birds, e.g. the black-banded fruit-dove (Ptilonopus alligator), chestnut-quilled rock-pigeon (Petrophassa rufipennis), and white-throated grass-wren (Amytornis woodwardi).

Arnhem Land tropical savanna 2008

A tall, solid twentysomething he appeared younger than he was, and had actually turned twenty-nine that February, dressed in a khaki shirt and shorts, barefoot, with blond flyaway hair underneath a big Akubra hat and a black-banded wristwatch on his left wrist.

Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007

A tall, solid twentysomething he appeared younger than he was, and had actually turned twenty-nine that February, dressed in a khaki shirt and shorts, barefoot, with blond flyaway hair underneath a big Akubra hat and a black-banded wristwatch on his left wrist.

Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007

Light brown and black-banded, every centimeter of the solid piece of toka root had been carved in relief.

The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

After she had finished her food, two more guards suddenly appeared, wearing white flowing robes and red, black-banded headdress; each man carried a rifle in his hand and a curved scimitar at his side.

Lace Shirley Conran 1982

After she had finished her food, two more guards suddenly appeared, wearing white flowing robes and red, black-banded headdress; each man carried a rifle in his hand and a curved scimitar at his side.

Lace Shirley Conran 1982

After she had finished her food, two more guards suddenly appeared, wearing white flowing robes and red, black-banded headdress; each man carried a rifle in his hand and a curved scimitar at his side.

Lace Shirley Conran 1982