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Definition of Fairy bluebird
1. Noun. Fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies.
Generic synonyms: Oscine, Oscine Bird
Group relationships: Genus Irena, Irena
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fairy Bluebird
Literary usage of Fairy bluebird
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Straits Branch (1904)
"... bright blue feathers from the back of the male fairy bluebird Irena criniger ;
in the resinous lump are imbedded a seed of A ..."
2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1881)
"The Malayan fairy bluebird occurs in the Malayan Peninsula. a. Imm. St. Malacca.
d. " b, c. [{J $]ad. at e. ft 9- h. ..."
3. The Philippine Islands and Their People: A Record of Personal Observation by Dean Conant Worcester (1898)
"... A few days later I was hunting on a path at the foot of the hills, when I saw
a beautiful fairy-bluebird, which I was most anxious to kill. ..."
4. The Philippine Islands and Their People: A Record of Personal Observation by Dean Conant Worcester (1898)
"... A few days later I was hunting on a path at the foot of the hills, when I saw
a beautiful fairy-bluebird, which I was most anxious to kill. ..."
5. A Brief History of the Philippines by Leandro Heriberto Fernández (1919)
"Certain mountains, cliffs, and points of land they considered sacred. They venerated
the crow and the fairy bluebird. ..."
6. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1873)
"The beautiful Irena puella, or fairy bluebird, sat in numbers upon a bare tree
near the breakfast place : this bird is one of the most lovely of our Indian ..."
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