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ornaments of dress, and are very highly prized. In Europe and 

 America, at the present time, they are sought for with avidity, to 

 adorn ladies' hats, etc. The birds and feathers for the European 

 market are principally obtained at Batavia and Singapore, whither 

 the natives of Celebes, and others, bring them from Papua and the 



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Greater Paradise-Bird {Paradisea apoda). 



Arroo Islands. In India they derive much of their value from the 

 miraculous virtues which the priests have ascribed to them, causing 

 the creature that produced them to receive the title " Bird of God," 

 IlanucO'Dewata ; from which Buffon coined the modern French name, 

 Manucode. Dr. Forster suggests, but perhaps without reason, that 

 this bird may have been the phoenix of antiquity. 



