Also, the fact that Musaeus's hair clustered in hyacinthine grace upon the delicate rose of his downy cheek' may well be a code.

The appeal to animal traffickers is obvious: A single hyacinthine macaw can fetch $6,500 to $12,000 in the United States.

I examined the contour of the lofty and pale forehead--it was faultless--how cold indeed that word when applied to a majesty so divine!--the skin rivalling the purest ivory, the commanding extent and repose, the gentle prominence of the regions above the temples; and then the raven-black, the glossy, the luxuriant and naturally-curling tresses, setting forth the full force of the Homeric epithet, "hyacinthine!" I looked at the delicate outlines of the nose--and nowhere but in the graceful medallions of the Hebrews had I beheld a similar perfection.

hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad: She as a veil down to the slender waist Her golden unadorned tresses wore Dishevelled, and in wanton ringlets waved As the vine curls her tendrils, which implied Subjection, but required with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best received, Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay.

And Poe makes use of Homer's epithet, like Wilde, several times even: In `The Visionary' (`The Assignation'), the Marchesa Aphrodite dazzles the beholder with hair clustered `in curls like those of the young hyacinth'.(9) In `Ligeia', `the raven-black, the glossy, the luxuriant and naturally-curling tresses' of the heroine bring to the narrator's mind `the full force of the Homeric epithet, "hyacinthine!"'.(10) And in `To Helen' (lines 6-10), the epithet has found its most famous expression in English literature:

Adam's "Hyacinthine Locks" hanging "round from his parted forelock" and Eve's hair "as a veil down to the slender waist" (PL 4.

Travellers there spot more than 600 species of birds, including the rare blue and yellow "Hyacinthine macaw," the largest member of the parrot family measuring 39 inches from tail to beak.