Birds of Paradise 



lines of feathers which traverse its surface. It was, there- 

 fore, a great surprise to ornithologists when, in 1885, a Bird 

 of Paradise with blue flank plumes was discovered in the 

 Owen Stanley Mountains in British (/. e. South-eastern) 



The Blue Bird of Paradise (Paratiisornis rudolphi). 



New Guinea by the late Carl Hunstein, and named by 

 Drs. Finsch and Meyer Paradisornis rudolphi, after the 

 ill-fated Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, who was a keen 

 ornithologist. The back and wings of the bird are also for 

 the most part blue. 



