482 PARADISE BIRD. 



mentioned birds may be mere fexual differences of that defcribecf 

 by Sonnerat. 

 Thefe birds inhabit New Guinea* 



7' Le Calybe de la Nouvelle Guinee, Buf. olf. iii. p. iji.—PI. enl: 614, 



BLUE GREEN hrvr a pi- a o t, i . 



p -n L Oiieau de Paradis verd, Son. Voy. p. 164. pi. 99. 



Description. T ENGTH fixteen inches. The bill is flout and. thick, and ra- 

 ther bent at the end ; the colour black : the feathers of the 

 head are of a velvety texture, and come very forward on the 

 upper mandible ; the plumage in general is of a fine blue, chang- 

 ing into green in different lights, or fea-green : the back, belly, 

 rump, and taiL. artfteel blue, and very glofiy. 



This feems to be the fame with one in Sir Jofeph Banks's col- 

 lection. The bill in that bird was an inch and a quarter long : 

 the tongue even at the end, and furnifhed with briflles : the tail 

 cuneiform-; the two middle feathers feven inches long ; the outer 

 ones three inches and three quarters : the whole plumage of the 

 head and body feemed frofbed,. each feather being abfolutely 

 curled at the edges : the head and neck appeared to have the 

 moft reflection of green, and the body mofl inclined to purple ^ 

 the wings were wholly wanting. 

 H.HCT.. The bird above defcribed came from New Guinea, 



This can be no 'other bird than that of Sonnerat above quoted,, 

 which he fays is a trifle bigger and longer than the King Paradife 

 Bird, The bill black : irides red : the bird is wholly of a fine 

 green colour, which has the glofs of polijhed jleel : the feathers of 

 the head, neck* and body,, are fmall, and ranged one over another. 



like 



