Plumage Synonyms

Cuckoos are abundant, some of them of lovely plumage, also rollers, kingfishers and hornbills.

Still it is brisk in its movements, and its variegated plumage makes it a pleasing bird.

Its striated plumage also favours this view, as an evidence of permanent immaturity or generalization of form, since striped feathers are so often the earliest clothing of many of these birds, which only get rid of them at their first moult.

As a whole, the birds of Papua are remarkable for their brilliance of plumage, or their metallic colouring.

The regiment fluttered like a bird preening its plumage and became motionless.