plum-headed

Updated: May 12, 2025

Here silence reigned, disturbed only by the murmuring hum of glittering insects, or the shrill clamour of the plum-headed parroquet and the flute-like calls of the golden oriole. We crossed the broad sandy beds of two rivers over-arched by tall trees, the most conspicuous of which is the Kombook , from the calcined bark of which the natives extract a species of lime to be used with their betel.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon