color-flashing

Updated: June 7, 2025

And there were color-flashing parrots, too, a-wing and noisy in the high branches; and apes that swung and chattered; and round the high, golden walls of the citadel, half visible through the cloud of green and party-colored foliage, whirls of pigeons, white as snow, flicked against the gold. The Legionaries were hard put to it to obey the Master's order never to express surprise or admiration.

George Allan England - The Flying Legion