CHAP, xxsvi,] RED BIRD OF PjtRAHlSK 



I RED Binti or pjujuQisi. (Faratfbm rulrtL) 



the loftiest ti-ees 

 of tlie tropics), it 

 was away iiito the 

 forest They now 

 visitad the tree 

 every morning ; 

 but they stayed so 

 short a time, their 

 motions were so 

 rapid, and it was 

 so dithcult to see 

 tliem, owing to the 

 lower trees, which 

 impeded the view, 

 that it was only 

 after several days' 

 watching, and one 

 or two mioses, that 

 1 brout^ht down 

 tny bird— a niale 

 in the most mag- 

 iiLficent plumage. 



