tropic-looking

Updated: May 5, 2025

Desperate they were, as the poor, little, brilliantly resplendent, and tropic-looking kingfisher had, no doubt, been, whom they found, frozen into a dried, huddled heap, under the stream-bank, and so emaciated that, after they had picked his bones, they scarcely knew that they had touched him. But anon the face of the snow changed meaningly for them.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild