quatzel

Updated: April 30, 2025

Now, as I have said in a former chapter, these are wise little birds, more interesting I had almost said more beautiful in their wisdom, or wisdom-simulating instincts, than the quatzel in its resplendent green, or the cock-of-the-rock in its vivid scarlet and orange mantle.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - The Naturalist in La Plata