47« PARADISE BIRD. 



LBlomefield is a fine fpecimen, from whence the above defcription 

 was taken j and I have feen a fecond at Sir Jofeph Banks's. 



Aldrovandus talks of a crefted Bird of Paradife *, which he fays 

 had a creft near the neck, almoft three inches high, ridged, of a 

 yellow colour, and feemed to confift rather of briftles than fea- 

 thers. But this bird was eighteen inches long : the bill long, 

 black, and hooked ; and the feathers of the head, neck, and 

 wings, black, being yellow at the joining of the bill. 



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Pl. XX. >"TpHIS elegant fpecies is about the fize of a Blackbird in the 



.iDsscRipTioN. J. body . whichj from the dp of the biU tQ the infert ; on of the 



tail, meafures no more than about fix inches, the tail occupying 

 all the reft. The bill is an inch in length, rather ftout, mode- 

 rately bent, and of a black colour : the forehead is furnifhed with 

 tufted thick feathers, which occupy alfo the fides of the head ; 

 and beneath the eye, and round the throat, they are fo full as to 

 enlarge thofe parts confiderably in bulk : the colour of this part 

 of the plumage is black, and like plufh or velvet ; but from the 

 root of the under mandible, at the chin, are a few feathers of the 

 common ftrudlure, with webs : the back part of the head, nape, 

 and hind part and fides of the neck, to the beginning of the back, 

 are of a gilded green, but the feathers are not much unlike thofe 

 in common, and which, in courfe, fitting clofer to the Ik in, give 

 thofe parts a fiat appearance : at the angles of the mouth begins a 

 line of the moil brilliant gilded copper-colour imaginable, which 

 paffes beneath the eye, growing wider by degrees, and finifhes in a 



• Av. i. p. 81 1. pl. in 814.— Rati Syn. p. 21. N° 4. — Will. em. p. 92. 

 N° 4.— Compare alfo Forr. Voy. p. 140. N°6f 



kind 



