PARADISE BIRD. 477 



L'Oifeau de Paradis furnomme le Magnifique, Son. Voy. p. 163. pi. g8. — 3. 



2V.«/.6 3 i. MAGNIFICENT 



. v P. B. 



Le Magnifique de la Nouvelle Guineej ou le Manucode a Bouquets, Buf. p L jqX. 



0//; iii. p. 166. 



CIZE of a Blackbird : length nine inches. The bill is an inch Description. 



in length, a little bent, of a pale yellow, with the tip and 

 bafe black : the feathers about the head are fhort and velvety : 

 the crown and nape are of a deep cheftnut yellow, but on the 

 firft incline to cheftnut : the feathers which cover the noftrils, 

 between the bill and eye, and round the chin, are fhort, thick 

 let, and ftand out from the reft : between the gape of the 

 mouth and the eye is a fpot of lucid green : at the back part of 

 the neck behind arifes a tuft of yellowifh feathers, each of them 

 marked near the tip with a fpot of black ; beneath this firft 

 fprings a fecond packet, which is larger, and of a ftraw-colour, 

 which lay loofely over the back : the back itfelf and tail are of a 

 bright red brown : from the chin to the thighs the colour is 

 blackifh, having a refte&ion, in fome lights, of green, and in a 

 quiefcent ftate of the bird, fall over part of the wing-coverts : 

 down the middle of the throat, neck, and breaft, the colour is 

 blue green, and the feathers fhort and downy : the fecondaries are 

 of a deep yellow ; the prime quills brown, and reach nearly to 

 the end of the tail j from the place of the infertion of the middle 

 ones arife two long wiry fhafts, like as in the former fpecies,. 

 which curve in a circle, and are furnifhed with very fhort green 

 webs on one fide, and end in a point : the legs are yellow. 



M. Sonnerat is the firft who has defcribed this bird ; and informs Place, 



us that it is found in New Guinea. In the colle&ion of Mifs 



10 Blomefield, 



