brush-tongued

I also continued to obtain a few new birds, among which were two or three kinds of small hawks and falcons, a beautiful brush-tongued paroquet, Trichoglossus ornatus, and a rare black and white crow, Corvus advena.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

It was a variety of the Charmosyna placentis, one of the smallest and most elegant of the brush-tongued lories.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The most remarkable were the fine crimson lory, Eos rubra — a brush-tongued parroquet of

The Malay Archipelago 2004

It has no woodpeckers and no pheasants — families which exist in every other part of the world; but instead of them it has the mound-making brush-turkeys, the honeysuckers, the cockatoos, and the brush-tongued lories, which are found nowhere else upon the globe.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

But there is another large group of parrots, the _Loriidae_ or brush-tongued parrots, some of the most interesting and brightly coloured of the tribe, which, when wild, subsist principally upon the pollen and nectar of flowers, notably the various species of _Eucalyptus_, the filamented tongues of these parrots being peculiarly adapted for obtaining this.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

And the brush-tongued lories, that search for nectar among the bells of Malayan blossoms, are the brightest-coloured of all the parrot tribes.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

A very peculiar and exceptional offshoot of the parrot group is the brush-tongued lory, several species of which are common in Australia,

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

The prevalence of very large and brilliantly coloured flowers in the Malayan region must be set down for the most part to the selective action of these æsthetic and colour-loving little brush-tongued parrots.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

It has no woodpeckers and no pheasants -- families which exist in every other part of the world; but instead of them it has the mound-making brush-turkeys, the honeysuckers, the cockatoos, and the brush-tongued lories, which are found nowhere else upon the globe.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

The most remarkable were the fine crimson lory, Eos rubra -- a brush-tongued parroquet of a vivid crimson colour, which was very abundant.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868