colibri

A lovely little sun-bird (Nectarinia oseœ?), which the Frenchmen of course called colibri, with ravishing reflections of green and gold, flashed like a gem thrown from shrub to shrub: this oiseau mouche is found scattered throughout Midian; we saw it even about

The Land of Midian 2003

Frenchmen of course called colibri, with ravishing reflections of green and gold, flashed like a gem thrown from shrub to shrub: this oiseau mouche is found scattered throughout Midian; we saw it even about El-Muwaylah, but I had unfortunately twice forgotten dust-shot.

The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

They had taken the precaution of setting free all the captive birds in the _aldeia_, and they had flown away, except the _pio duddu_ (the _colibri_), which they took with them into the forest.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

The _colibri_ tied the vegetable ropes as requested, and all the boys climbed up.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

In the first instance the grandmother begged for the help of the _pio duddo_ (or _colibri_).

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

They would blaze away with their repeating rifles -- and bullet cartridges, of course -- at parrots and even _colibri_ birds 100 or 200 metres off.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

The Bororos had many superstitions regarding animals, which they individualized in their legends, giving them human intelligence -- especially the _colibri_ (humming-bird), the macaw, the monkey, the deer, and the leopard.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Her hour is the fulness of the sun's flood-tide: she comes in the dead hush and white flame of windless noons, -- when colors appear to take a very unearthliness of intensity, -- when even the flash of some colibri, bosomed with living fire, shooting hither and thither among the grenadilla blossoms, seemeth a spectral happening because of the great green trance of the land ....

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The gold-feathered colibri hums lightly through the air, soaring over the heavy, sombre-colored tapir.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

Like a dazzling flash of colored light the colibri (humming-bird) appears and disappears.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853