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Catalan
faetó (au)
Spanish
phaethon
Mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land.
tropicbird
boatswain bird
Catalan
faetó (au)
tropicbird
boatswain bird
1
Even monk seals have joined the
tropicbirds
and boobies nesting there.
1
The gulls and screaming
boatswain
birds
sailed in mid-air between his perch and the green waves.
1
We now met the first
tropic
bird
we had seen in this sea.
2
The next morning we saw a
tropic
bird
and some fish.
3
The
tropic
bird
is a species of gull, about the size of a partridge.
4
She was like a
tropic
bird
seen amid the scant foliage of northern hills.
5
The brilliant Renee, many-hued as a
tropic
bird
!
6
Giving him one frightened glance, she turned and sped like some strange
tropic
bird
upon the wind.
7
This day we saw a
tropic
bird
.
8
Tom, the Rotuman, grinned-"ToFiji, my white
tropic
bird
.
"
9
She knew now it was only some huge,
tropic
bird
,
afar on the horizon-somecondor, vulture, or other creature of the air.
10
You seem, in your scarlet boating-dress, Annie, like some bright
tropic
bird
,
alit for a moment beside that other bird of the tropics, flame.
11
Or flights of the
tropic
bird
,
known among seamen as the "boatswain," wheeled round and round us, whistling shrilly as they flew.
12
When half-way across the point, I came suddenly upon a magnificent male
tropic
bird
,
sitting in his nest behind a tussock of tall, reedy grass.
13
And she, to whom warmth and colour were a very part of her nature, was an exotic, a lost
tropic
bird
,
in these icy mountains.
14
Gannets, boobies, men of war and
tropic
birds
,
were constantly about us.
15
There were probably a greater number of
tropic
birds
than of any others.
16
Tropic
birds
look like staring toys out of a toy-shop.
tropic
bird
tropic
Catalan
faetó (au)
Spanish
phaethon