BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA. 



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PL Enl. 634. This fpecies has none of the eccentric feathers of 

 the others, yet each feather on the head and body appears 

 curled at the edges. The color is that of dama&ed fteel, re- 

 fle6ling blue, green, and purple. The feathers in the bird de- 

 fcribed by My. Sojtncrat^liQ quite clofe on each other ; length 

 fixteen inches. 



Golden ; Edw. 112. Latham, ii. 483. This fjtecies is of a bril- 

 liant gold color; throat of a velvet black; tCxgo. of the wings 

 and tail black. 



White \ Forrejl,^ \dfO, Lat ham, inAQx, ]). ic)'j. Thefe are very 

 uncommon ; one is faid to be quite white, the other black and 

 •white : found only in the Papuan iflands, efpecially in Waggiou.' 

 White-zvinged'y Latham,\f\\. Supp. 92. Its general color is black ; 

 about the neck glofTed v*-ith copper ; primaries white, edged with 

 black ; the middle feathers of the tail twenty inches long, the 

 exterior only feven. 



I NOW pafsto another genus wliich produces fpecies inferior 

 only to the preceding. The Grand of Mv. Latham, W. p. 695. 

 Le grand Promerops de la Nouvelle Guinee; Sonn. Voy. p. i65. 

 pi. 101. PL Enl. 639. Le grand Promerops a pare mens frifes; 

 Buf. Ois. vi. p. 472. 



The extravagancy of the plumage is admirably exprefled in 

 the figure referred to; the fize is that of a middle fized pigeon ; 

 rhe tail is moft enormous; the middle feathers being two feet 

 four inches long. 



The rayed is the other fpecies ; Neiv Guinea, brown ; Latham 

 ii. 694. Le Promerops brim de la Nouvelle Guinee; Sonn. Fov. 164. 

 tab. 100. Le Promerops brun a ventre ray}; Buf. Ois. vi. p. 471. 



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Golden. • 



White. 



Whitf- 



V.'INGED. 



Grand 

 Promerops 



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