47 6 PARADISE BI-RD: 



broad bar of green, having the luftre of polifhed metal : the 

 belly wholly white s : from each fide, beneath the wings, fpring 

 feveral feathers of a greyifh white, tipped with lucid green : the 

 tail is not much more than an inch in length, and the wings> 

 when clofed, reach considerably beyond it : from the place of 

 the middle tail feathers, fpring two feathers which are webbed at 

 the origin, the reft of the way quite naked, except at the ex- 

 tremities, where they are again webbed on one fide, and coil in a 

 fpiral manner j the webs of a green-colour, and very glofiy : the 

 legs are about as ftout as thofe of a Lark, and are yellowifh 

 brown. 

 Place and jr. j s found principally at Aroo, but only during the dry monfoon, 



coming from New Guinea, where it is fuppofed to breed. It is 

 called at Aroo, Wowi, Wowi ; in the Papua (/lands, Sopclo-o ; being 

 brought chiefly from Aroo Sopclo-o j and efpecially from Wadjir 3 

 a well-known village there. 



The Dutch call it King Bird, and get it from Banda, 

 to which place it is brought by the natives of the iflands 

 where it is found. It is faid not to aflbciate with any other 

 of the Birds of Paradife, but flits folitary from bufh to bulb, 

 wherever it fees red berries, without ever getting on tall trees. 



This fpecies is much more fcarce, and in courfe much feldomer 

 met with in cabinets, than either of the former. 



• In fome fpecimens, there is a narrow bar of yellow above the green one; 

 and the belly is green and white mixed. 



L'Oifeau 



