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How taken by ilie natives oi .Ma \ sol. 



feathers in the preceding species ; and the back 

 is of a greyish yellow. In general, the colour* 

 of this kind are less brilliant than those of the 

 larger. The neck and bill of the male are longer 

 than the same parts of the female. 



These little birds also follow, and appear to 

 obey, a king or chief, whose colours are less bril- 

 liant and more of a purple hue. They perch 

 upon the loftiest trees on the mountains, and 

 there construct their nests. The natives of May- 

 sol kill them with blunt arrows, for fear of injur- 

 ing their beautiful plumage. It is likewise said, 

 that they impregnate, with a certain drug, the 

 springs at which the birds are accustomed to 

 drink, by the effects of which they are intox- 

 icated, and are then easily taken. They are fond 

 of a tree called tsampedocb; this they pirrce 

 with their bills, and extract the pulp which it 

 contains. The natives take out their entrails, 

 thrust a hot piece of iron into the belly, and put 

 them into the hollow of a bauibou to preserve 

 them. 



* 

 .KING OF BIRDS OF PARADISE. 



THIS is a solitary bird, never perching upon 

 lofty trees like others of that tribe, but hopping 

 from bush, to bush in those districts that produce 

 the shrubs beariog red berries. It does not ap- 



