vil PARADISEIDAE 547 
racquet-tips. Cicinnurus regius, the King Bird of Paradise, hardly 
seven inches long, is glossy crimson, with a metallic green band 
dividing the throat from the white lower parts. An expan- 
sible “fan” of ashy plumes tipped with emerald arises from 
each side, while the long median tail-wires have the terminal 
green inner webs coiled into discs. The feathering reaches far 
down the orange bill; the feet are cobalt, contrasting with the 
black, ‘yellowish, or fleshy tints usual in the Family. Diphyl- 
lodes gulielma tertit is orange-red with mainly dusky wings and 
tail; the long nuchal ruff being orange, the lateral neck-tufts 
purplish-brown, the pectoral shield green edged with emerald, 
Fic. 126.—Magnificent Bird of Paradise. Diphyllodes magnifica. x 2. 
(From Malay Archipelago. ) 
the long side-plumes brown with green ends, the belly purple. 
D. magnifica has a brown head and under surface, green throat 
and breast-shield, orange-brown back surmounted by a double 
cape of straw-yellow upon red-brown, and long, curved steel- 
blue tail-wires. Schlegelia respublica is remarkable for its naked 
blue head, with two lines of brown feathers crossing each other 
at right angles, and for its blue feet. The upper parts are 
successively green, yellow, crimson, black, and brown; the silky 
gular shield is green, with metallic blue spots above and coppery 
marks below; the lateral breast-plumes shew coppery and green 
hues. Parotia secpennis, the Six-wired Bird of Paradise, is 
bronzy- and purphsh-black, having scale-like golden throat- and 
breast-feathers with green and blue reflexions. A satiny white 
