Lexicographical Neighbors of Quezals
Literary usage of Quezals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"So much for Pumas, Jaguars, Pea» cocks, Ibises, Quezals, and Gulls. Finally, it
has been said, that " the proper study of mankind is man ;" and be it so. ..."
2. Memoirs of an Ex-minister: An Autobiography by James Howard Harris Malmesbury (1885)
"Dear Lord Malmesbury,—I took the liberty of sending to your Address solne of the
famed ' quezals,' whose plumage under the Aztec ' ' ''"• 1 'HM Chargé ..."
3. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"... in brilliancy are the long-tailed trogons or quezals and the hummingbirds,
and none of these types have such elaborate feather structure. ..."
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