color-strained

Updated: July 14, 2025

I wondered if animals, too, were, like the Malays and so many savage tribes, afraid of the moonlight the "luna-cy" danger in those strange color-strained rays, whose power must be greater than we realize. Beyond the monkey roosted Robert, the great macaw, wide-awake, watching me with all that broadside of intensive gaze of which only a parrot is capable.

William Beebe - Edge of the Jungle