...The other birds were crows, turtle-doves, fish-hawks, kingfishers, ibis nigra and ibis religiosa, flocks of whydah birds, geese, darters, paddy birds, kites, and eagles...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Here, along the shore, we saw thousands of the water-fowl already familiar to us, as well as such strangers as gaudy kingfishers, ibises, and rosy flamingoes...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...It is because of the commonness of this delusionthat stuffed kingfishers, and other brilliant species,are to be seen in the parlours of tens of thousandsof cottages all over the land...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
...The two extreme points of difference in the Linnæan kingfishers, are seen in the Alcedo Ispida, and A...
William Swainson 「Zoological Illustrations, Volume II」
...In the case of the two green kingfishers, I am inclined to think that the yellow of that shining field of buttercups in some way produced the illusion...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...Some time ago a young man showed me three stuffed kingfishers in a case, and informed me that he had shot them at a place (which he named) quite close to London...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...Half a century before the author of "Wild Life in a Southern Country" amused himself by carrying a gun to shoot kingfishers...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...In my walks in the town, I saw a great many stuffed kingfishers, and, in the shops of the local taxidermists, some rare and beautiful birds, with others that are fast becoming rare...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...But outside of the town I saw no kingfishers and no rare species at all, and comparatively few birds of any kind...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...Already four little baby kingfishers have pecked their way out of thewhite shells...
Lenore Elizabeth Mulets 「Stories of Birds」
...So those unhappy mortals became the first kingfishers, happy at last inbeing reunited...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...Bank-mynas, white-breasted kingfishers, bee-eaters and a fewbelated sand-martins are nesting in sandbanks in cavities whichthey themselves have excavated...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...But I have yet to hear of a robin building a nest likea brown thrasher, or of an oriole building a nest likea robin, or of kingfishers drilling for grubs in a tree...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...The Kingfishers are a wide-spread family, beingfound all over the world...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...As with the kingfishers and sheldrakes,each pair of birds seem to have their own pond or portion; but by whatold law of the waters they find and stake their claim is yet to bediscovered...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
...When these things were taken out of thehouse a large number of crickets were taken out too,and then was the chance for the Kingfishers (Halcyonsanctus) which darted down and snapped them up...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
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