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garden proves attractive to the gay, but fickle 



to xiiiitter^fi iSd birds. lodividtkak vm^g 



Macao arc oag\n* to view these splendid natural 

 oltjt'cts : and the liberal owner readily affords tins 

 gratification to the stranger no less than to ixis 



The first, hdUi to miS^if m w^tt # th^ fe- 



conceivable delicatjy of its plmnage and tints, of 

 wliieb I intend to attempt a description, is thst 

 *' aerial creature" of fairy form, decked in na- 

 ture's most delicate and beautiful colours^ the 

 Pitmdke Btr^» This fe mistmm or Great 

 1^1 rd nf Paradise, the Parafi/st a apoda* of Linneus, 

 the P. 7tiajor 0^ Shaw. The lejigtb of the bird 

 is usually two feet, measuring troni the bill to 

 the tip af the side feathers. The specimen in the 

 pos^sidzi of Mt, Bk&hf Is a im tc^^ and urns, 

 at the time I beheld him, arrayed in his full and 

 splendid ])luniage : he is enclosed in a large and 

 rr)oiiiy €ap:c, so as not, by confinement, to injure 

 in tlic slightest degree his delicate and elegant 

 fi^tharst 



This beatilSfal &t^m!0 Jm Ibeen H Mi% 

 Beale's possession nine years, a^d was originally 



* It is oirious that Lbneug, by besiilf^g this ))iK^ 



lUv sperific nanu' ol" Aprula, or ivitliOLitfeet, Slwwild liave CPB- 

 {|itL.'il tlic assertion thai it uas so. 



