202 PARADISE BIRD. 



wings mixed with black ; quills and tail black, with yellow shafts ; 

 and the latter fringed with yellow at the tip ; legs black. In young 

 birds the beak is mottled with ash-colour. 



This is said to inhabit some part of the East Indies, but the 

 place not determined. 



Authors have differed as to the situation it ought to hold in the 

 system. Linnaeus at first ranked it with the Paradise Birds, but 

 afterwards joined with Brisson in making it an Oriole. Buffou 

 thought it allied both to the Roller and Paradise Birds. But although 

 we must own that it fails in some particulars, it comes nearest to the 

 last named, under which head we have still continued it. 



A. — Paradis orange, Var. Ois. de Parad. p. 27. pi. 12. 



This differs from the other, merely in having the wings and tail 

 greenish brown: such an one in the Museum of Mr. Bullock, of Pic- 

 cadilly, has the edges of all the brown feathers very pale, approach- 

 ing in some to white ; those of the tail appear to have many obsolete 

 undulations across them. I observe in the complete bird, the feathers 

 of the neck and breast, as well as of the back, are very long, and 

 capable of being erected like a kind of ruff. 



