CHAPTER’ xX: 
The Cock-ofthe-Rock and the Lyre-Bird 
WELL, I have told you about the Humming- 
birds and the Birds of Paradise, which are the most 
beautiful birds that there are in the world. Now I 
will tell you about just a few other ones which are 
very beautiful, although they are not quite so beauti- 
ful as those are. One of them is the Cock-of-the- 
Rock, a bird which lives in South America, where the 
Humming-birds live. There are three kinds and 
they are all handsome, but the handsomest, J think, 
is the one that is called the Blood-red Cock-of-the- 
Rock. It is about the size of a small pigeon, and of 
the most wonderful blood-red colour you can imagine. 
You would think, when you saw it first, that it had 
not one feather on the whole of its body that was not 
of this brilliant crimson, but, after a little, when your 
eyes are not so dazzled, you see that its wings and 
tail are not red but brown. Only, when the wings 
are shut they are almost quite covered up by the 
flaming feathers of the back, and just on one part— 
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