of the Lesser Bird-of- Paradise. 



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him for a minute or more, looking for all the world like a 

 domestic cock of some abnormal breed (text-fig. 26). 



Text-ficr. 26. 



/ 

 Paradisedlminor. 



(Sudden alarm during the display.) 



Bartlett (in Elliot's ' Monograph of the Paradiseidte '), 

 speaking of P. minor, writes : — " When uttering their loud 

 call the body was bent forward, the wings spread open and 

 raised up, frequently over their heads, meeting the plumes, 



