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Or it could have been the long, honey-gold hair tumbling over her shoulders in careless waves; her slender waxed arms; the birdwing arches of her nose.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

Or it could have been the long, honey-gold hair tumbling over her shoulders in careless waves; her slender waxed arms; the birdwing arches of her nose.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

My daily focal point had become her back, the birdwing shoulder blades, the silky ponytail.

Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010

My daily focal point had become her back, the birdwing shoulder blades, the silky ponytail.

Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010

While there has been no systematic Peninsula-wide survey of invertebrates, nearly 60 percent of all Australian butterflies (223 species) occur on Cape York Peninsula, including the spectacular Cape York birdwing (Troides priamus pronomus).

Cape York tropical savanna 2008

The Arfak Mountains, famous for birdwing butterfly diversity, are surrounded by heavily populated areas, and the reserve itself is in danger from encroachment by population expansion.

Vogelkop montane rain forests 2008

Butterflies are also well represented in the area and include many restricted species such as purple brown eye Chaetocneme porphyropis, Australian hedge blue Udara tenella and Cairns birdwing Ornithoptera priamus euphorion (Australia's largest butterfly).

Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia 2008

Butterflies are the best-known invertebrates in the hotspot, with a few species of Ornithoptera (birdwing) butterflies, particularly O. allotae and O. victoriae – both large, prominent and spectacular species – and the blue emperor swallowtail (Papilio ulysses) found in the Bismarcks and Solomons.

Biological diversity in the East Melanesian Islands 2008

The three-spotted birdwing was drawing Wallace into unexplored theoretical terrain.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Several days later he spotted another huge, strong-flying, iridescent birdwing of the genus Ornithoptera, similar but not identical to the three he had caught in Celebes.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004