Yore, every bird in the world had white colored feather. The difference was only on their body and beak shape, the length of their tails and their voices. If all birds came together on a place, then, from distance they’re looked like a white cotton heap. if together in sky, they’re also looked like a white cloud. Even though from close distance, it’s difficult to differentiate which is the sparrow, cockatoo, parrot or kutilang. At the time, often happened funny incidents experienced by birds species. Pipit urban chick backed home to pipit pinang was thought as his father. Parrot bred cockatoo’s chicks because he thought they were his chicks. Someday, they discussed each other, find out the solution. ‘’ in order to face this problem, we can’t act separately. we have chief in our village. We should ask advise to uncle Cockatoo, as the chief of this village,” crow suggested. They went to uncle Cockatoo that was the chief of their plan. Uncle cockatoo agreed that the same colored feather would bring problems. “Now, I want to hear your plan!” uncle Cockatoo said. The crow that was only kept silent from early then spoke, “Each of us should change our feather color. Because with the different colored feather, it’s easy for us to differentiate ourselves.” “what’s your reason ?” “look, human also has different skin. European has skin. Chinese has yellow skin. Indonesian has dark brown skin and African has block one. It’s easy for them to differentiate, “crow suggested. “We should be like them,” he continued. Many birds agreed with the crow suggestion. However, many of them resisted it. I don’t agree, because since our clan has feather like this,” Stork said. “this white feather them is clan, then must be changed, “ others protested. Strict debate happened between the agreed clan and resisted one. Cockatoo as the chief couldn’t make a decision. “I hear you debate strictly about the feather color. Well I give you a week for all of you here to propose what color you ask for your feather” “what is the requisite to choose the color?” the parakeet said. “the requisite, color choice between you must be different.” Cockatoo continued, ‘ I will perform a test. Who pass the test. Then his clan deserves to get the propose. If every bird species pass the test, then I will bring it to king Wicaksana. Do you all understand?.” “yes , we all understand …, they answered jointly. The next morning crow collected his clan to perform meeting. Every one completely submit the crow to determine their color. “then, since this day, I will roam to find idea about what color is suitable for our clan’s feather,” Crow said. The crow started to roam. His intention was only looking for idea to determine suit and beautiful color, as well as having a meaning. At the beginning, he came by a village. Coincidentally, it was a mangosteen season. He saw a squirrel eating a black mangosteen. “Ho squirrel. Why do you like mangosteen?” crow asked a question. “It’s delicious. However, he wanted to know the secret, why the black mangosteen was delicious. Suppose that the mangosteen tree could speak, crow will ask about it. The crow continued hid journey until he came to a graveyard. He saw everyone wore black clothes. They surrounded their family that was passed away. “Why do they all wear black clothes? There must be a reason?” he thought deep in his heart. He flew low and alighted at the roof. Then, he asked a question, why they all wore black clothe. However, none of them answered. Perhaps they didn’t know the crow’s language. Exactly, black has a meaning,” the crow said and noted it. Then, he flew again to continued his journey. He arrived at a village edge. He saw a women lighting fire. There was earthenware on the hearth. After several moments, she lifted it and put outside it’s content. Oh, she was cooking rice. Aunty, why do you use a black container, what’s the meaning?” crow incurred. However, the woman said nothing. Perhaps, because she didn’t know the crow’s language. Finally, crow only convinced himself that black has many meanings.
