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mistake—that this ‘“‘ Black Bird of Paradise’’ has 
another name—indeed he has two other names, but 
one of them is in Latin, so we won’t bother about 
that. There are some birds that have no English 
names, and when we come to them we will have to 
call them by their Latin ones—but as long as a bird 
has an English name we will never trouble our heads 
about what its Latin name may be, not we, any 
more than the bird itself does, and no bird that has 
an English name ever thinks about what its name 
is in Latin—in fact I really do not believe that it 
knows. An English name is enough for avy bird, 
if only it is so fortunate as to have one. Now this 
bird is so fortunate as to have two English names 
—the Black Bird of Paradise, that you know about 
—which is what the English people who live in its 
own country call it—and the Superb Bird of Paradise, 
which is what naturalists at home in England call it. 
The Superb Bird of Paradise! Just fancy having 
a name like that! Supposing a gentleman—some 
friend ot your father and mother, who calls some- 
times at the house—were to be called the superb 
Mr. Jones or the superb Mr. Robinson! Only he 
would have to be very much more handsome than 
he is at all likely to be, before he would deserve a 
name like that. 
Well, the two most wonderful things about the 
