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THE ROYAL P A R A D I S E- B I R D. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill furrounded at the bafe by velvet-like feathers. 

 Hypochondrial feathers (in mofl: fpecies) long and loofe. 

 Two naked (hafts proceeding from the rump. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Ferruginous Paradife-bird, whitifh beneath, with a golden-green band acrofs 

 the breaft; the two intermediate tail-feathers filiform, with lunated fea- 

 thery tips. 



Roi des Oifeaux de Paradis. Son. Voy. p. 156. /. 95. 

 King of the greater Birds of Paradife. Edw. t. in. 

 Le Manucode. Buff. 3. />. 163. 



'T^'HE fplendid genus Paradifea contains birds in the highefl: degree bcau- 

 -■- tiful in point of color, as well as lingular in point of appearance. The 

 common or chefnut-colored Paradife-Bird has already been figured in the pre- 

 fent work. That now reprefented is a fmaller fpecies, viz. about the fize 

 of a lark. It is a native of many of the Eafl: Indian iflands, and is con- 

 fidered as a much rarer fpecies than the former. Its general color is a very 

 rich red-ferruginous, accompanied by the highefl degree of glolTy luflre ; 

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