silktails

Updated: July 20, 2026

Here the corn-field raised to heaven its golden sheaves, and the harvesters sang; there, around the purple berries of the service-tree, circled beautiful flocks of the twittering silktails; round the solitary huts, the flowering potato-fields told that the fruit was ripe, and merry little barefooted children sprang into the wood to gather bilberries.

Fredrika Bremer - The Home : Or, Life in Sweden

In this delightful retreat a natural concert greeted him of feathered songsters darting to and fro and singing lustily. Two little silktails perched upon a neighbouring branch particularly attracted his attention. He had seated himself on a mossy bank in a retired nook, close by the spot chosen by the chatterers for their lively and very animated conversation.

H. N. (Horatio Nelson) Crellin - Tales of the Caliph