PARADISE BIRD. 



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Inhabits New Guinea. In one specimen, the long webless ear 

 feathers were wanting, but the rudiments of them could be traced ; 

 it was also without the Ostrich-like feathers under the wing. Buffon 

 mentions a like circumstance in a bird published by M. Marvi, adding, 

 that in this bird the crest was not complete. It is, therefore, probable, 

 that the latter ones may be sexual differences of M. Sonnerat's bird. 



13.— BLUE-GREEN PARADISE BIRD. 



Paradisea chalybea, Ind. Orn. i. 197. Shaw's Zool. vii. 504. t. 71. 



^— — — viridis, Gm. Lin. i. 402. 



Cassican, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. li. 



Calybe de la nouvelle Guinee, Buf. iii. 173. PI. enl. 634. Zool. Indie, p. 38. 6. Ois. 



de Paradis p. 24. pi. 10. 

 Blue-green Paradise Bird, Gen. Syn. ii. 482. Ind. Zool. 4to. 26. VI. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill stout, thick, black, somewhat 

 bent at the end ; feathers of the head of a velvet-like texture, and 

 come very forward on the upper mandible ; the rest of the plumage, 

 in general, fine blue, changing to green in some lights, or sea-green; 

 back, belly, rump, and tail steel blue, and very glossy, the last 

 rounded at the end, and the under part of it black; legs black. 



Such is the description of Buffon, aided by the figure in the 

 PI. enlum. The tail said to consist of only six feathers, but we can 

 not consider this circumstance otherwise, than the remainder having 

 been lost by accident. M. Temminck joins this with others of our 

 Roller tribe, forming a Genus named Barita. — See Man. p. li. 



A.— L'Oiseau de Paradis verd, Son. Voy. 164. t.99. 



M. Sonnerat describes this as being a trifle larger and longer than 



the King Paradise Bird. Bill black ; irides red ; plumage wholly 



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