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THE FARMER AT HOME. 



beginning and end ; the shaft of which is a deep black, but the 

 feathered part is changeable, like the mallard's neck. 



BIRD OF PABADISE. 



These birds, which for beauty exceed all others of the pie kind, asso- 

 ciate in large flocks in the Molucca Isles ; but, in the Island of Aro, 

 they are still more abundantly found ; and, as the country where they 

 breed has its tempestuous seasons, when raiasand thunder continually 

 disturb the atmosphere, they are supposed at those periods to seek a 

 more tranquil clime, and are never seen in the air until it becomes 

 composed. The natives, who make a trade of killing and selling the 

 bird of paradise to Europeans, hide themselves in those trees to which 



