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It lives on the worms generated in the decayed part of old trees, and is about the size of a blackbird. Of the same size is the burong sawei, a bird of a bluish black colour, with a dove-tail, from which extend two very long feathers, terminating circularly. It seems to be what is called the widow-bird, and is formidable to the kite.
On the Argus pheasant, Jardine's 'Nat. Hist. Lib.: Birds, vol. xiv. p. 167. On Birds of Paradise, Lesson, quoted by Brehm, 'Thierleben, B. iii. s. 325. On the widow-bird, Barrow's 'Travels in Africa, vol. i. p. 243, and 'Ibis, vol. iii. 1861 p. 133. Mr.
Whitney, Prof., on the development of language; language not indispensable for thought. Widgeon, pairing with a pintail duck. Widow-bird, polygamous; breeding plumage of the male; female, rejecting the unadorned male. Widows and widowers, mortality of.
Far away in the wastes of dune and jungle the sweet flute-like tremolo of an owl broke out, prolonged infinitely. From the dark garden below, a widow-bird called breathlessly, its ghostly cry, now a far whisper in the night, now close at hand, husky, hurried, startling amid the shadows.
The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes, certainly seems to be a polygamist. 'The Ibis, vol. iii. 1861, p. 133, on the Progne Widow-bird. See also on the Vidua axillaris, ibid. vol. ii. 1860, p. 211. On the polygamy of the Capercailzie and Great Bustard, see L. Lloyd, 'Game Birds of Sweden, 1867, pp. 19, and 182.
Barrington, Daines, on the language of birds; on the clucking of the hen; on the object of the song of birds; on the singing of female birds; on birds acquiring the songs of other birds; on the muscles of the larynx in song-birds; on the want of the power of song by female birds. Barrow, on the widow-bird. Bartels, Dr., supernumerary mammae in men.
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