Primeiro; the frigates Piranga, Carolina, and Netherohy; the corvettes. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
It appears that last night only His Imperial Majesty's ships Unaŏ, (now Piranga,). From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
The Piranga, useless from her bad sailing, owing to the state of her copper, had been ordered to. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
We've seen a lot of western tanagers Piranga ludoviciana this year, and not always in the best of conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
I took the measures that appeared to me to be necessary; and there, before any other place, our independence was declared, in the ever-memorable plain of Piranga. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
The slow sailing of the Piranga and Netherohy kept them farther behind the Pedro than their brave commanders wished; the others were forced to keep aloof, it is said, by the conviction that their crews could not be trusted against the Portuguese. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
Lord Cochrane has taken the officers and English seamen of the Piranga and Nitherohy on board the Pedro, so that now he has one ship he may depend on: he has exchanged the eighteen-pound guns of the main-deck, for the twenty-four pounders of the Piranga, and has placed guns along his gang-ways; and we trust the next news we have from him, we shall learn something favourable to the cause of independence. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
The cloud forest supports a wide diversity of fauna with such notable species as turkey vulture Cathartes aura, Andean guan Penelope montagnii, scarlet-fronted parakeet Aratinga wagleri, lyre-tailed nightjar Uropsalis lyra, marvellous spatuletail Loddigesia mirabilis (VU), cock-of-the-rock Rupicola peruviana, carbonated flower-piercer Diglossa carbonaria and hepatic tanager Piranga flava (Mittermeier, de Macedo and Luscombe, 1975). From Wordnik.com. [Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru] Reference
Sailors Carousing, or a Jollification on board the Piranga. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
Piranga was also directed to have everything in readiness for weighing immediately on the flag-ship appearing off the Moro and making signals to that effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Thomas Lord Cochrane]
Piranga, despatched the Pedro Primiero to Rio, and, leaving Captain Manson, of the Cacique, in charge of the naval department at Maranham, put to sea on the 18th of May. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Thomas Lord Cochrane]
Lord Cochrane lost no time in reporting his arrival and requesting to be provided with the necessary means for refitting the Piranga and preparing for a speedy return to Rio de Janeiro. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Thomas Lord Cochrane]
His squadron consisted of the Pedro Primiero, a fine and well-appointed ship, rated rather too highly for seventy-four guns, commanded by Captain Crosbie; of the Piranga, a fine frigate, entrusted to Captain Jowett; of the Maria de Gloria, a showy but comparatively worthless clipper, mounting thirty-two small guns, under Captain Beaurepaire; of the Liberal, under Captain Garcao. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Thomas Lord Cochrane]
"The fleet consisted only of the frigate Piranga, then called the Union, not fitted; the corvette Liberal, only a hull; and of a few other small and insignificant vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
Tanager, Summer Piranga rubra 268, 292. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
When the Piranga left the. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
Tanager, Scarlet Piranga olivacea 243, 254, 268. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Some of the many representative avifauna are black-bellied tree duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis), great blue heron (Ardea herodias), roseate spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja), snowy egret (Egretta thula), sanderling (Calidris alba), American kestrel (Falco sparverius), blue-winged teal (Anas discors), northern jacana (Jacana spinosa), elegant trogan (Trogan ambiguus), summer tanager (Piranga rubra), white-tailed hawk (Buteo albicaudatus), merlin (Falco columbarius), plain-capped starthroat (Heliomaster constantii), painted bunting (Passerina ciris) and wood stork (Mycteria americana). From Wordnik.com. [Marismas Nacionales-San Blas mangroves] Reference
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