PARADISE BIRD. 



Thefe build in tall trees, and are fuppofed not to migrate, like 

 the firft defcribed ; yet are faid, like them, to fly in flocks, pre- 

 ceded by a king, who is black, with a purplifh caft, and finer 

 coloured than the reft. 



The male is faid to have a longer neck and bill than the female. Male, 



I efteem this a mere variety of the firft, notwithftanding the 

 ^fluraHces of authors about it, as above mentioned. 



Paradifea regla, Lin. Sy/}. i. p. 166. N° 2. 2. 



Le petit Oifeau de Paradis, Brif. om. ii. p. 136. N° 2. pi. 13. f. 2. KING 



Le Manucode, Buf. olf. iii. p. 163. p. 13. — PI. enl. 496. 



Le Roi des Oifeauxde Paradis, Son. Voy. p. 156. pi. 95. 



Rex Avium Paradifearum, Rait Syn. p. 22. N° 10. 



Suppofed King of the greater Birds of Paradife, Will. em. p.96. pi. 77. 



Edw. pi. I'll: 

 King's Bird, Farr. Voy. p. 141. N° 7. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



HTHIS bird is about the fize of a Lark, and near five inches * in Descriptj«n,, 



length. The bill is one inch long, of a yellowifti colour, 

 and very little bent : the upper mandible covered half way with 

 orange-coloured feathers: the eyes encircled with a black 

 plumage : at the internal angle of the eye is a fpot of black : the 

 irides are yellow : the head, neck, back, tail, and wings, are of 

 a bright red colour ; the crown brighteft ; and the breaft ap- 

 proaching to blood red j all having a rich fattin-like glofs : moft 

 part of the head is covered with foft fhort feathers, like velvet, 

 but the other parts are like feathers in common : on the breaft is a 



• Forrtft fays feven inches. 



3 P o. ; broad 



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