golden-spangled

For some time no one spoke, and we lay there gently rising and falling on the golden-spangled water.

Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

Everything was thrilling: the golden-spangled water looked so black, and the darkness around so deep, while from the Grand Chaco, the great, wild, untrodden forest across the river stretching away toward the mighty Andes in the west, the shouts, growls, and wails suggested endless horrors going on as the wild creatures roamed here and there in search of food.

Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco George Manville Fenn 1870

Then planting itself with outstretched paws firmly on his shoulders, and lowering its head, it opened its jaws and uttered a savage yell, which was answered from the golden-spangled water where the new-comer was swimming.

Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco George Manville Fenn 1870

Hamburghs properly have a very different plumage; nevertheless, as Mr. Tegetmeier informs me, "the great difficulty in breeding cocks of the golden-spangled variety is their tendency to have black breasts and red backs."

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

I may add that in 1737 one Polish sub-breed, viz. the golden spangled, was known; but judging from Albin's description, the comb was then larger, the crest of feathers much smaller, the breast more coarsely spotted, and the stomach and thighs much blacker: a golden-spangled Polish fowl in this condition would now be of no value.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

Turnix), when there is any conspicuous difference in plumage between the male and female, the male is always the most beautiful; but in golden-spangled Hamburghs the hen is equally beautiful with the cock, and incomparably more beautiful than the hen in any natural species of Gallus; so that here a masculine character has been transferred to the female.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845