violaceus

Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.

Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia 2009

Two humble-bees, Bombus thoracicus and B. violaceus, are found on the pampas; the first, with a primrose yellow thorax, and the extremity of the abdomen bright rufous, slightly resembles the English B. terrestris; the rarer species, which is a trifle smaller than the first, is of a uniform intense black, the body having the appearance of velvet, the wings being of a deep violaceous blue.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

Sibthorpe from the Trojan Olympus, with an exquisitely delicate leaf; the flower described as "triste et pallide violaceus," but coloured in his plate full purple; and as he does not say whether he went up Olympus to gather it himself, or only saw it brought down by the assistant whose lovely drawings are yet at Oxford, I take leave to doubt his epithets.

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

M. Bonpland says, however, in his botanical journal written on the banks of the Rio Negro, flos violaceus.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The four species found in the UK are the black oil beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus), the violet oil beetle (Meloe violaceus), the rugged oil beetle (Meloe rugosus) and the short-necked oil beetle (Meloe brevicollis).

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M. Bonpland says, however, in his botanical journal written on the banks of the Rio Negro, flos violaceus.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Tunicate colonies of Botrylloides violaceus with oral tentacles at openings of oral siphons visible

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