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racquet-tips. Cicinnurus regius, the King Bird of I'uradise, hardly 

 seven inches long, is glossy crimson, with a metallic green band 

 dividing the throat from the white lower parts. An expan- 

 sible " fan " of ashy plumes tipped with emerald arises from 

 each side, while the long median tail-wires have the terminal 

 green inner webs coiled into discs. The feathering reaches far 

 down the orange bill ; the feet are cobalt, contrasting with the 

 black, yellowish, or fleshy tints usual in the Family. Biphyl- 

 lodes gulielmi tertii is orange-red with mainly dusky wings and 

 tail ; the long nuchal ruff being oraltige, the lateral neck-tufts 

 purplish-brown, the pectoral shield green edged with emerald. 



Fig. 126. — Magnificent Bird of Paradise. Diphyllodes magnifica. xf. 

 (From Malay Archipelago.) 



the long side -plumes brown with green ends, the belly purple. 

 D. magnifica has a brown head and under surface, green throat 

 and breast-shield, orange-brown back surmounted by a double 

 cape of straw-yellow upon red -brown, and long, curved steel- 

 blue tail-wires. Schlegelia respuhlica is remarkable for its naked 

 blue head, with two Lines of brown feathers crossing each other 

 at right angles, and for its blue feet. The upper parts are 

 successively green, yellow, crimson, black, and brown ; the silky 

 gular shield is green, with metallic blue spots above and coppery 

 marks below ; the lateral breast-plumes shew coppery and green 

 hues. Parotia sexpennis, the Six-wired Bird of Paradise, is 

 bronzy- and purplish-black, having scale-like goldeil throat- and 

 breast-feathers with green and blue reflexions. A satiny white 



