"The Greenish Bird" is a Mexican fairy tale collected by Joel Gomez in La Encantada, Texas from a seventy-four-year-old woman, Mrs.
[1] Other types of the first type include The Black Bull of Norroway, The Brown Bear of Norway, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Enchanted Pig, The Tale of the Hoodie, Master Semolina, The Enchanted Snake, The Sprig of Rosemary, The Daughter of the Skies, and White-Bear-King-Valemon.
[2] Others of the second include The Feather of Finist the Falcon, The Green Knight, and The Blue Bird.
The Wind agrees to take the princess to "las torres altas y calladas del rey turco" (the prince's location), and changes her to a wrinkled and lame old woman in shabby clothes.
The princess arrives at prince Gustavo's castle, and, saying her name is Cipriana, finds work as a chicken herd.
The elder daughter pays Florinda a visit, drinks some tea, and sleeps, failing in her duty.
She spills the drink and pretends to be asleep, watching a whole scene unfold before her single eye: Florinda grooms herself in the mirror; a parrot knocks on the window and the girl lets it in; the bird drops on a basin and becomes a prince; the pair spends the night together and the prince turns back into a bird by morning.
The one-eyed girl tells her mother about the secret meeting and they conspire to put some broken glass and razor on Florinda's window.
The next night the parrot flies in, he hurts himself in the glass and, thinking Florinda somehow betrayed him, tells her to look for him in the Kingdom of the Green Moss by wearing down three pairs of iron shoes.
On the first two nights, Florinda enters the prince's adjoining room and pours out her woes for him to hear, to no avail.
With his chamberlain's help, the Green Moss Prince goes to meet Florinda and they reconcile.