THE BIRDS OF PARADISE. 



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First one Bird of Paradise, and then another, comes to settle on the broad 

 leafy top of a tree that grows close by the hut. There is the Great Bird of 

 Paradise, the only one we ever see in England — that is, as a stuffed bird ; never 

 as a living one. You have no idea of his beauty when he is moving about near 



THE RED BIRD OF PARADISE. 



the tree, the sun flashing on his wonderful colours. His head and neck are 

 yellow, and his throat of a lovely green ; then his plumes are of an orange- 

 gold colour, and look like fans of gold. 



The Birds of Paradise are very lively in their dispositions, and they have 



