United States or Malta ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"How did they look?" said I. "They is red blackbirds," he returned. This was not the first time I had heard the redwing called the ricebird. But how did the boy know me for a bird-gazer? That was a mystery. It came over me all at once that possibly I had become better known in the community than I had in the least suspected; and then I remembered my field-glass.
The mother returned with the water to cook supper. She heard a bird crying, "King! king! nik! nik! nik!" When the woman uncovered the basket, Tilin, the little brown ricebird, flew away, calling: "Good-bye, mother; good-bye, mother; you would not give me mo'-ting!" Origin of kaag, the monkey The palay was in the milk and maturing rapidly.
The woman and the husband, frightened, ran out of the house; they heard something in the air above them. "Qu-iu'-kok! qu-iu'-kok! qu-iu'-kok!" said Co-ling', as he circled around and around above the house. "Qu-iu'-kok! qu-iu'-kok!" he screamed, "now camotes and palay are your son. I do not need your food any longer." Origin of tilin, the ricebird
Thinking this barbarity over, I started to get indignant; but just in time I remembered what we ourselves have done to decimate the canvas-back duck and the wild pigeon and the ricebird and the red-worsted pulse-warmer, and other pleasing wild creatures of the earlier days in America, now practically or wholly extinct.
I believe it the least effective of the various things devised by the Igorot to protect his rice from the multitudes of ti-lin' the small, brown ricebird found broadly over the Archipelago. The most picturesque of these wind-tossed bird scarers is the ki'-lao.
Word Of The Day