190 PARADISE BIRD. 



state of the bird, fall over, and conceal part of the wing coverts ; 

 but down the middle of the throat, neck, and breast appearing gilded 

 blue green, and the feathers short and downy ; the two middle quills 

 are yellow brown, but the prime ones and the tail are deep brown, 

 and the ends of the quills are nearly as long as the tail ; from the 

 place of insertion of the two middle feathers of the last, spring two 

 long, wire-like, shafts, furnished with very short, green webs on 

 one side, and end in a point ; legs dusky yellow. 



Said to inhabit New Guinea, but is a rare species. The above 

 described from a specimen, formerly in the possession of Miss Blome- 

 field : another was in that of Sir Joseph Banks : we have also seen 

 it in two or three other places, and not greatly differing from the 

 above description. 



7— CRESTED PARADISE BIRD. 



Paradisea cirrhata, Ind. Om. i. 195. Aldr. Av. i. 811. t. p. S14. Rail p. 21. Will. 



p. 57. Klein, p. 63. Bris. ii. 135. Id. Svo. i. 195. 

 Oiseau de Paradis huppe, Ois. de Paradis p. 28. 

 Crested Bird of Paradise, Will. Engl. p. 92. Forr. Voij. 140. 6 ? Ind. Zool. 4to. p. 71. 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 491. 



THIS is the fourth Bird of Paradise described by Aldrovandus, 

 who makes it eighteen inches long. The bill very long in proportion, 

 black, and somewhat hooked ; the feathers of the head, neck, and 

 wings black, yet at the joining of the bill yellow ; a crest or cope 

 near the neck, almost three inches high, rigid, and of a yellow 

 colour, and which seemed to consist of bristles rather than feathers, 

 and in that chiefly differing from the Greater, or first Species. 



