tee-algon

Updated: May 19, 2025

Perhaps the most interesting and entertaining of all the birds of the island is that commonly known as the weaver or friendly bird, otherwise the metallic starling, the shining calornis of the ornithologist, the "Tee-algon" of the blacks. Throughout the coastal tract of North Queensland this bird is fairly familiar.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber