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"It looks to me something of the same shape as a thrush or blackbird, sir," I said. "And that's what it is, my boy. That bird is an oriole the orange oriole; and there is another, the yellow oriole. Both thrushes, Nat, and out in the East there are plenty more of most beautiful colours, especially the ground-thrushes. But there is someone come to call us to feed, I suppose. We must go now." "Oh!"
I should have felt that I had done a good day's work if I had only secured that dainty prize with its delicately harmonious coat of soft grey and blue." "And it is a thrush, uncle?" "Certainly. Look at the beak. This is one of the Pittas or ground-thrushes, Nat, of which there are a good many out in these islands.
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