102 PLUMAGE OF BIRDS. 



LESSON XVII. 



PLUMAGE OP BIRDS THE VOICE OP BIRDS 



SONG-BIRDS. 



THE dress of birds is, in many instances, of the 

 most beautiful kind. Nothing indeed can exceed 

 the splendour and brilliance of the different co- 

 lours with which the Father of all things has clad 

 the " winged denizens of the air." The skins of 

 the birds of paradise, which are brought to this 

 country, are of dazzling lustre. Some of them 

 have tippets of feathers, spreading over the breast 

 and back, of the richest hues ; and others have long 

 lines of feathers springing from beneath their 

 wings of the most delicate structure, or branching 



