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sugar bird

noun

  1. a South African nectar-eating bird, Promerops cafer, with a long curved bill and long tail: family Meliphagidae (honey-eaters)


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It was called the sugar-bird, because it was said to be fond of the sugar-cane, and that it could eat sugar in great abundance.

The sugar-bird is delicious when close by, but his pipe is too soft to be heard at any distance.

Nothing in nature can exceed in splendour the plumage of the sugar-bird.

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