SOLITARY AND GREGARIOUS. 



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King-Bird of Paradise. 



flocks of those which are gregarious, where its sin- 

 gular plumage* must render it conspicuous. 



The same remark will apply no less forcibly to the 

 king of the vultures (Sarcoramphus papa, Du- 

 MERIL), which is seldom seen congregating in flocks, 

 but of whom one or two solitary birds will inter- 

 mingle with the Turkey buzzard (Catharista aura, 

 VIEILLOT), and of course appear conspicuous among 

 them from their more striking form and colours. 



* Audebert, Hist, Nat. Ois. de Paradis, p. 22. 



