bristle-armed

Updated: May 6, 2025

Then it would be a green barbet, with bristle-armed beak and bright blue and scarlet feathers to make it gay. Or again, one of the cuckoo trogons, sitting on some twig, like a ball of feathers of bronze, golden green, and salmon rose. But this was not a collecting trip.

George Manville Fenn - Mother Carey's Chicken: Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle