fi^a 



ConcET. 



Supers. 



Furcated. 



Six-wired. 



Damasked 



BiUEGRlEK, 



LAND OF PAPUAS, or NEW GUINEA,- 



the nape of the neck a creil: compofed of flifF yellow briftles^^ 

 rather than feathers, three inches high ; length, to the end of 

 the wings, eighteen inches : moft probably an inhabitant of 

 Nezv Guinea^ but feems unknown Unce the days of Aldro- 

 i-andus. 



Gorget', Latham, Vi. 478. tab. xx. This was undefcribed till 

 Mr. Latham favored us with an account of it ; he fnppofes it to 

 be the fame with one mentioned by captain Forreji, p. 140, who 

 fays that the AlfoorkSyOX inhabitants of the mountains in Mixoal, 

 flioot thefe birds, and fell them to the people of "Tidore. 



Superb \ Sonn. N. Giiinee, 157. tab. 96. De Buffon, iii. 169. 

 "PL Enl. 632. Latham, ii. 479. Tlie Black, Forrefi, 139. An in- 

 habitant of Nczv Guinea, its hiftory unknown. M. Sonnerat 

 places a fraall bird in its claws, fo one may conclude it to be a 

 rapacious fpecies, but it is a moil elegant kind ; the long feathers 

 Ipringing from the flioulder are bell expreffed in the figure 

 given in Les Blanches Lnlummees : in Mr. Sonnerat they are left 

 quiefcent. 



Furcated-, Latham, ii. 480. 2d paragraph. Lev. Mus. with 

 the head wholly black; the. wings had been cut off, but near 

 their origin riies a tuft, like thofe of the preceding, on the upper 

 part of the belly. 



SiX'ivired ; Uoifeaux de Paradis a gorge d'or ; Sonn. N. Gtiinee, ■ 

 158. tab. 97. Le Slfelet, ou manucode a fix filets ; de Buffsn, iii. 171. 

 P/. Enl. 633. Latham, ii. 481. Size of a turtle. The long fliaft- 

 lefs feathers on each fide of the neck, make it the moft fingular 

 fpecies of any we are acquainted with. 



DamafRcd blue green ; Latham^ ii. 482. Sonnerat, 164. tab. 99. 

 3 F/. £«/. 



