PARADISE BIRD. 189 



Inhabits New Guinea, where it is supposed to breed, but is 

 principally found at Aroo, where it is called WowiWowi; in the 

 Papuan Islands, Sopclo-o, being brought chiefly from Aroo Sop- 

 clo-o ; and especially from Wadjir, a well known village there. 



The Dutch call it King Bird, and get it from Banda, to which 

 place it is brought by the natives of the Islands before named. It 

 is said not to associate with the other Birds of Paradise, but flits 

 solitary from bush to bush, feeding on red berries, without getting 

 on tall trees. 



This Species is more rarely found in Cabinets than the two first 

 described . 



6 —MAGNIFICENT PARADISE BIRD — Pl. xlv. 



Paradisea mag-nifica, Ind. Orn.i. 195. Gm.Lin.'i. 401. Shaw's Zool. vii. 492. t. 62. 

 Le Magnifique de la nouvelle Guinee, Son. Voy. 163. t. 98. Pl. enl. 631. Ois. de 



Parad. p. 15. pl. iv. 

 Manucode a. Bouquets, Bit/, vii. p. 166. Zool. Ind. 38. 3. 

 Magnificent Paradise Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 477. pl. xix. Ind. Zool. 4to. p. 26. III. Nat. 



Misc. pl. 625. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length nine inches. Bill one inch long, 

 bending a trifle downwards; it is pale in colour, with the tip and base 

 dusky black ; the general texture of the feathers about the head short, 

 like cut velvet, those round the forehead and chin are thick set, stand 

 out a trifle beyond the rest, and black ; between the gape and eye 

 a lucid green spot ; the crown and nape are yellowish chestnut, 

 deepest on the crown ; from the back of the neck a tuft of yellow 

 feathers, each of them a trifle broader at the end, and there marked 

 with a black spot ; beneath this a second longer tuft, or packet of 

 feathers, of a straw, or brimstone-colour, lying loosely over the back, 

 which is red-brown ; from the chin to the thighs the feathers are 

 greenish black, appearing in some lights green ; and in a quiescent 



