182 PARADISE BIRD. 



1.— GREATER PARADISE BIRD. 



Paradisea apoda, Ind.Orn.'i. 194. Lin. L 166. It. JVgoth. 139. Mus. Ad. Fred.\. 15. 



Gm.Lin.'u 399. Boroicsk. ii. 121. .SViaiu's Zoo/, vii. 480. t. 58. 

 Manucodiata, Paradisea Avis, Bris.W. 130. t. 13. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 193. i?a» p. 20. 1. 



Id. 21. 3. 5. 6. 7. Jd. 22. 8. 9. Will. 56. 1. 11. p. 57. 5. 6. p. 58. 7. 8. p. 59. 9. 



Klein Av. 63. 1. 3. 5. 6. Seoa ilfas. i. 99. t. 63. f. 1. 2. Germ; t. 63. Zoo/. Indie. 



p. 31. 1. Id. 4to. p. 18. pi. in title page. Mus. Lev. t. 8. 

 Abe del Paraiso, Gabin. de Madrid, i. p. 67. lam. 29. 

 Der grosse Paradiesvogel, Schmid Vog. p. 54. t. 41. 



Oiseau de Paradis, Buf. iii. 151. t. 12. PL enl. 254. Robert Ic. pi. 19. 

 L'Emeraude, Ois. de Paradis p. 9. pi. 1. 



Birds of Paradise, Will. Orn. p. 91. 1. 92. 3.5.6.7. 93. 8.9. pi. 11. 

 Great Paradise Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 471. Edio. 1. 110. Alb. iii. pi. 9. Forrest Voy. 



135. Bradl. Nat. t. 12. f. 1. 2. 



THIS bird appears, from the plumage, to be as big as a Pigeon, 

 but the body scarcely exceeds that of a Thrush. Bill one inch and 

 a half long, stout, brown, and a little curved at the tip, from thence 

 to the end of the tail twelve inches and a half; the head rounded, 

 of a full proportion to the size of the bird, and, as well as the throat 

 and neck, covered with very short, dense, stiff feathers ; those of the 

 head, and hind part of the neck, of a pale gold-colour, but the base 

 of the bill is surrounded with black velvet-like ones, changing in 

 different lights to green ; the fore part of the neck is green gold, 

 lower part of it behind, back, wings, and tail chestnut; breast deeper 

 chestnut, inclining to purple ; beneath the wings spring a great 

 quantity of feathers, the webs of which are so loose as to appear like 

 herring-bone,* some of them nearly eighteen inches in length : these 

 are of different colours, some chestnut and purplish, others yellowish, 

 and a few almost white; from the rump arise two feathers without 

 webs, except for four inches next the base, and the same at the tips; 

 these appear to be the two middle tail feathers, and are two feet 



* Appearing not unlike tufts of the Downy Feather-Grass — Stipa pennata, Lin. 



