BY JOHN REINHOLD FORSTER, LL. D. 



thread-fliapedj black, exceeding the reft a palm in lengtli, with 

 a lunated feathered tip, of a lliining green above, brown below. 

 Belly, {potted : from the fides proceed bundles of broad- rayed 

 feathers, one part of the rays, green, the other, brown. Back, 

 blood-brown, gloffy like fiik. Feet, like thcfe of a lark ; three 

 toes before, one beiiind. 



This bird never affociates with the other ipecies 6i P'aradife- 

 hirds, but flies about the lonely thickets, wherever it fees red ber- 

 ries, nor ever fits upon tall trees. 



In Aru it is called IVowi IVozvi: in the Papua ifles, Scfdo-o. 

 The Dutch name it Kings-bird. It is chiefly brought from Aru- 

 Scpclo-o ; and efpecially from JVodjir, a well-known town of this 

 ifiand. T\i^ Aruans fay they have never feen its neftj but fuf- 

 peft that it is a ftranger from New Guinea, and there brings up 

 its young, but never leaves Aru during the dry feafon of the 

 weftern monfoon. It is taken in fnares made of Gurmnatty, or 

 with birdlime prepared from the Sukkom or bread-fruit (Artocar- 

 pus communis Forft. CharaSi.) 



It is embowelled and dried, and fold in Banda. The Aruans 

 put it in their helmets in their mock fights, and the game Toha- 

 kalil. 



The illuftrious Buffon, or rather his friend Gueneau de Mont- 

 ieillard, defcribes fix Paradije-hirds in his Hill, of Birds, tom iii. 

 edit. in4to: and tom v. edit, in i2mo, p. 207, 238. Thefe 

 birds feem alfo to be delineated in Daubenton's Iplendid Planches 

 Enluminees, N° 254, 496, 631, 632, 623-, 634. Sonnerat like- 

 wife defcribes and delineates the fame fix birds. We Ihall now 

 therefore briefly compare thefe fix birds with what we have above 

 defcribed at length from Valmtyn, vol. iii. 



E I. L'oi/eau 



