Definition of Fairy bluebird

1. Noun. Fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies.

Exact synonyms: Bluebird
Generic synonyms: Oscine, Oscine Bird
Group relationships: Genus Irena, Irena

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fairy Bluebird

fairwater
fairway
fairways
fairweather
fairweather friend
fairweather friends
fairy-ring mushroom
fairy-slipper
fairy-tale
fairy-wren
fairy-wrens
fairy armadillo
fairy bell
fairy bluebird (current term)
fairy bread
fairy cake
fairy chess
fairy circle
fairy cup
fairy dust
fairy floss
fairy fort
fairy forts
fairy godmother
fairy godmothers
fairy lantern
fairy light
fairy penguin

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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