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AN ESSAY ON INDIA, 



with fulphur, and dried ; in which ftate they are fold, for half a 

 dollar in Banda^ but in Jru they may be purchafed for a large 

 nail or piece of iron. The DuUh fliips frequenting the fea be- 

 tween New Guinea and Am (a diftance of i8 or 20 miles) not 

 unfrequendy fee flocks of Taradije-birds croffing the fea from one 

 to the other of thefe places, but always againft the wind. If a 

 more tempeftuous gale than ufual rifes during their flight, they 

 feek the upper and calmer regions of the air, and thus continue 

 their courfe. The natives faflen thefe birds to their helmets in 

 place of crefts, in real and mock fights 5 and often tie the whole 

 or part of the fkins to their fwords. During the eaftern mon- 

 foon their very long feathers fall -, and in the weflern monfoon, 

 within the fpace of four months, as the Arums report, they are 

 replaced by new ones. 



II. Paradisea apoda. Lesser. Latham Syn. ii. 474. 

 Index, i. 194. (3. 



CT'HE lejfer Paradife-bird of Papua. This fpecies is about 

 twenty inches in length. Beak, lead-colored, paler towards 

 the apex. Eyes, fmall, and furrounded with black. Neck, eme- 

 rald-colored. Head, and back of the neck, dufky-yellowilh. 

 Wings, fmall and chefnut-colored. Breafl: and belly, brown. 

 Back, yellowifli-grey. Long fcapulars, about a foot in length, 

 and paler than in the former fpecies; which is in general to be 

 obferved of all the Iplendid colours in this fpecies. The long 

 bare feathers of the tail are conftandy rejedted by the inhabitants. 

 In other relpeds, this fpecies has every thing in common with the 

 3 former. 



