fig-bird

Out of forty perchers eleven are missing — yellow oriole, yellow fig-bird (SPHECOTHERES), black-backed magpie, black-headed diamond-bird, helmeted friar-bird, silver-eye, and the blue, pied, shining, white-eared and spectacled flycatchers.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

The little fig-bird of the Roman Campagna pays a yearly visit in September to the fig orchards on our Sussex coast.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie