BI RD S OF NE W GUI NE A. xii 



This inhabits the Papuan ifles only; a chain which extends 

 from the fouth end of Giloloy to the weft extremity of Nezv Guinea. 

 They never migrate, but rooft on the loftieft trees of the moft 

 raoiintanous parts of the country, and are likewife faid to have 

 their king or leader. They are fhot with blunt arrows by the 

 natives of Mixoal\ others fay, that when the natives obferve 

 where they come to drink, they poifon the water with the Cocculi 

 Jndicii which fo ftupifies them that they are caught readily. 

 They love to feed on the fruit of the Xfljampedeh., which they 

 pierce with their bills, and extradl the kernel. The natives pre- 

 ferve them by drawing the entrails, and fearing the infide with 

 a hot iron, after which they put them in the hollow of a bam- 

 boo for their fecurity. The Fapuajis call them Shag or Shague. 

 They differ from^ the former in being relidentiary birds, other- 

 wife I might have been tempted to have joined this and the 

 former as varieties. They likewife might clame the title of 

 Manu-co Dewata, for like the preceding, they afpire to the 

 heavenly regions. A fable (not unlike part of that of the Phoe- 

 nix) is related of this fpecies, that when it finds its end approach- 

 ing, it foars diredlly up to the fun, till exhaufted with its flight, 

 it falls dead upon the earth. 



Magntjicent\ da Buffonim.i66. Pl.EnLG^i. Sonn. N.Guinee^ MACNincEMT. 

 163. tab. 98. Latham.) ii. 477. tab. xix; inhabits New Gui?iea ; I 

 Ihall not trouble the reader with defcription, but refer to the 

 beautiful figure given by Mr. Latham. 



Crejied', Manucodiata cirrhata, Aldr. lib. xii. c. 25. p. 401 ; with Crested. 

 a long black bill fomewhat hooked ; at the junction of the bill, 

 the feathers were yellow ; head, neck, and wings black ; near 



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