Wings 349 
or the bizarre decoration of the Twelve-wired Bird of 
Paradise. 
A strange appendage is found in the wing of the West 
African Goatsucker. Conspicuous enough when the bird 
is flying, it is wonderfully protected when the bird rests, 
Fic. 280.—Wing of Woodcock. 
as is its wont, upon the ground among tall, feathery- 
topped grasses. From each wing a single long feather 
extends in an upward direction, almost bare of barbs 
for most of its length, but tipped with a mottled, loose- 
vaned tuft which corresponds very perfectly with the 
flower-heads of the grasses among which it lives. As 
