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Wings of the Paradisea apoda, when vertically erected and made 

 to vibrate, are described as forming a sort of halo, in the center 



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A 



Fig. 47. Paradisea Papuana (T. W. Wood). 



of which the head "looks like a little emerald sun with its rays 

 "formed by the two plumes.'"^ In another most beautiful species 



" Quoted from M. de Lafresnaye, in 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' 

 vol. xiil. 1854, p. 157; see also Mr. Wallace's much fuller account in 

 vol. XX. 1S67, p. 412, and in his 'Malay Archipelago." 



