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PASSERIFORMES 



CHAP. 



" Paradise-Pie " of old autliors, is bronzy-black above and green 

 below, with golden-green occiput and nape, purplish black throat, 



coppery fore-neck, and violet 



tail, the feathers round the 

 head forming an erectile 

 frill. A. stephaniae has the 

 head and neck bluer, the 

 breast purplish-bronze. The 

 smaller A. sj^Iendidissima 

 has a more brilliant nape- 

 region, red fore -neck, and 

 much buff on the tail. Mac- 

 (jregoria pulchra is black, 

 with mainly orange-buff pri- 

 maries, and an orange wattle 

 covering most of the face. 

 Paradigalla carunculata is 

 black, with green and bronzy 

 sheen aljove ; the front of 

 the head being naked, with 

 three wattles on each side 

 one broad and yellow above 

 the bill, another moderate 

 and blue at the gape, a third small and red below it. Paradisea 

 cqwda, the Great Bird of Paradise, is rich brown, becoming 

 purplish beneath ; the head and neck are pale yellow, the fore- 

 head, lores, cheeks, and throat metallic green. The wiry median 

 rectrices have very slight apical and basal webs, while long, thick, 

 extensile tufts of delicate decomposed golden-orange feathers, tipped 

 with brown, grace the sides. Of its congeners, P. minor has the 

 mantle straw-coloured ; P. raggiana has a light yellow gorget, 

 and red lateral plumes like those of P. {Uranornis) ruh^a, the 

 Eed Bird of Paradise. P. {Paradisornis) rudolphi is greenish-blue 

 and dusky above, with blackish head, neck, and under surface, and 

 a purplish occipital patch. Prom the sides of the body spring 

 two series of elongated, decomposed feathers : the outer and stiffer 

 being ultramarine, changing terminally to lilac with a brown 

 external tinge, the inner smaller and deeper blue. Below these 

 come a row of short chestnut plumes and finally a set of black. 

 The two long median rectrices are violet-black with small blue 



Fig. 125. Long-tailed Bird of Paradise. Faici 

 nellus sjjeciosus. x i. (From Malay Archi 

 pelacjo. ) 



