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Presently the increasing warmth seems to stir his blood, 

 and he begins to move in a more excited manner, and 

 straining forward from his perch with slightly opened, 

 quivering wings, utters a loud cry in a high key : 

 waa ! waa ! waa ! waa ! 



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Paradisea minor. 

 (Shewing the ordinary position of tail in relation to the side-plumes.) 



This cry, which generally precedes the display, is usually 

 uttered two or three times" at short intervals, and is sometimes 

 varied by a long series of ear-piercing yells. Immediately 



