Word: trogon
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...watchers anymore--were combing western Washington and southwestern British Columbia in pursuit of, among other species, the black-footed albatross and crested myna. Or they were in southeastern Arizona, stalking the violet-crowned hummingbird and sulphur-bellied flycatcher, all the while praying for a glimpse of the rare eared trogon...
Three other Graduate School students won Honorable Mention. Jess B. Bessinger 4G for "Robin Hood in the Forest of Philology: The Ballads After Ritson"; Geoffrey B. Riddehough 1G for "Trogon Isolation in Greek Drama"; and Edward E. Hunt, Jr. 4G for "The Biological Study of Human Evolution...
...garnet, topaz, turquoise, sapphire, chalcedony, beryl, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, agate, carnelian, porphyry, opal, and the tinctures of those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon of Ecuador, the green tanager, the Chinese jay, the yellow woodpecker of Venezuela; a body inlaid with Macassar ebony from the island of Celebes; a Salamanca cabriolet whose interior is a Louis XV tapestry reproduced from the original in the Metropolitan Museum in two and a half million stitches, from...
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