492 MAGNIFICENT PARADISE-BIRD. 



drovandus*s description of this bird is illustrated 

 by a rude figure, copied from the drawing com- 

 municated to him, and from which his description 

 was drawn up: the tail-feathers in this figure ap- 

 pear to be blacky narrow, and curved. 



MAGNIFICENT PARADISE-BIRD'. 



l^aradisea magnifica. P. casianea, suhtus mridi-nitens, 'collo 



utrinque pennis Jiams fasciculato, 

 Chesnut-coloured Paradise-Bird, shining-green beneath, with 



the neck tufted on each side by yellow plumes. 

 Paradisea magnifica. P. castaneo-fusca, capistro nigro, cervice 



cirrhata j^ava, collo subtus pectoreque viridi-nigris medio niten^ 



tihus. Lath, ind. orn. 

 Le Magnifique de la liouvelle Guinee. Sonnet^, voy. p. 163. pi, 



98. 



Le Manucode a Bouquets. Bhj^. ois. 



Oiseau de Paradis^ de la Nouvelle Guinee, dit le Magnifique « 



PL Enl. 631. 

 Magnificent Bird of Paradise. Lath. syn. 



This highly beautiful species i^ of an orange- 

 cheshtit colour above, the top of the head and the 

 back deeper than the rest, the former, in some 

 specimens, inclining to purple: the tips of the 

 wings and the tail are brown : the throat blackish 

 with a purple gloss ; the feathers at its origin being 

 3hort and velvet-like, surrounding the base of both 

 mandibles, but less conspicuously than in some 

 others of the genus: the breast, belly, and thighs 

 are covered with scale- shaped feathers of a deep, 

 changeable, gold-green colour, but brighter and 

 more inclining to blue down the middle of the 

 breast: from behind the upper part of the neck 



