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SUPERB PAEADISE-BIRD, 



Paradisea superba. P, nigra, corpore utrinque fasciculo. aU^ 

 formi, pennis pedoralibus splendide virentibus utrinque elongato^ 

 divergenfibus. 



Black Paradise-Bird, with a \ying-like set of feathers on each 



side the body, and bright-green pectoral plumes diverging 



and lengthened on each side. 

 Paradisea superba. P. f route cristata, capite cervice abdomine- 



que viridibiis, gula molacea sericea, cauda mediocri ccerules-f 



centi-atra. Lath. ind. orn, 

 Le Manucode dit le Superbe. Sonner, my. p. 157. pi- 99. 

 Le Manucode noir de la Nouvelle Guinee dit le Superbe. 



Biff. ols. PI. EnL 632. 

 Superb Paradise-Bird. Lath. syn. 

 3^e Superbe. Viellot ois, de paradis. pi. ^. 



This species is about the size of a Thrush, and 

 is a bird of great singularity of plumage: the bill 

 is blackj moderately stout, and furnished at the 

 base with velvet-like black plumes, which are 

 lengthened above the base of the upper mandible 

 into a kind of shght bifid crest: the forehead is of 

 a lucid gold-green colour; the throat and sides of 

 the neck deep glossy purple, the feathers both of 

 that part and the forehead being of a, rounded or 

 scale-shaped appearance: the lower part of the 

 breast is furnished with a broad band of blue-green 

 feathers, accompanied by the richest golden gloss, 

 and so disposed as to form the appearance of a 

 divided or forked tail hanging from the breast, the 

 lateral feathers gradually lengthening in such a, 

 inanner as to constitute the forked appearance just 



