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which were wanting in the specimen from which 

 the drawing was made. 



Monsr. Levaillant describes and figures a bird 

 greatly allied to this, but, as he supposes, a dis- 

 tinct species, under the title of Le Nebuleux. 

 Monsr. Levaillant *s figure of this supposed species 

 is distinguished by peculiar elegance, but it repre« 

 sents the hypochondrial or loose side-feathers as in 

 a state of outrageous expansion, while the naked 

 filaments, instead of appearing to supply the place 

 of a tail, seem to form a continuation of the lower 

 hypochondrial plumes themselves; to which may 

 be added, that the bill, perhaps, from having been 

 warped in the preparation of the specimen, is 

 jslightly bent in an upward direction. 



CIRRHATKD PARADISE-BiRD. 



Paradisea cirrhata. P. capite collo alisque nigris, rostro elongato^ 



cirrho cervkali setaceo flam. 

 Paradise- Bird M'ith black head, neck, arid wings, lengthened 



beak, and setaceous yellow cjest on the neck. 

 Paradisea cirrhata. P. cafiie collo alisque nigris, cirrho proj)^ 



cervicem capistroque flavis. Lath. ind. orn, 

 Manucodiata cirrata. Jldrov. orn. ].p. 814. 



Described by Aldrovandus, who says its length 

 is eighteen inches ; the bill very long for the size 

 of the body, black, and somewhat curved: the 

 feathers of the head, neck, and wings black, but at 

 the joining of the bill yellow: on the back of the 

 neck was a sort of crest or ruff, consisting of 

 narrow, bristle-shaped, stifiish, yellow feathers. AI- 



