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Novi, APEMZ £907. 
IX --On the Display of the King Bird-of-Paradise 
(Cicinnurus regius). By Sir Wrttiam J. Incram, Bt. 
(Plate V.) 
Axttnoucs the wonderful displays of the Greater and Lesser 
Birds-of-Paradise have already been described (cf. Ogilvie- 
Grant, Ibis, 1905, p. 429), I believe that up to the present 
it has never been the good fortune of any collector or 
ornithologist to witness the extraordinary love-song and 
dance of the King-Bird (Cicinnurus regius). Ihave for some 
time had in my possession a fine male of this species, and 
on many occasions have been able to see him go through his 
astonishing display. My bird was brought from New Guinea 
(Aru Islands) along with several other Birds-of-Paradise, of 
which, unfortunately, all but one were males. They arrived 
in fair condition—seventeen examples of Paradisea. apoda, 
one of P. minor, and two males and one female of the King- 
Bird. I had the bad luck to lose on the day of their arrival: 
the female and one male of the last-named species. The 
survivor, however, rapidly became accustomed to his new 
quarters, a cage about thirty inches in length and height, and 
eighteen inches in breadth. In this he has gone through 
his moult, casting first of all his. long tail-wires tipped 
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