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- noun greenish-yellow Australian oriole feeding chiefly on figs and other fruits
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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.
The little fig-bird of the Roman Campagna pays a yearly visit in September to the fig orchards on our Sussex coast.