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hind each eye, spring three very long and slender 

 naked shafts, extending backwards at least as far 

 as the middle of the wings, and furnished at their 

 tips with a small oval web : on each side the body 

 are situated very numerous soft and loose-webbed 

 ascending feathers of different lengths, and cover- 

 ing in a great degree the wings themselves when 

 closed: the tail is of a slightly lengthened and 

 cuneated form, the two middle feathers consider- 

 ably exceeding the rest in length, which gradually 

 shorten on each side as they approach the base: 

 , the tail-feathers are also of a soft and loose tex- 

 ture; the legs black, a^nd moderately strong. 



ROYAL PARADISE-BIRD. 



Paradisea regia. P. rubro-castanea, fascia pectorali viridUaui'ea., 

 rectricibm duabus intermediis filiforniibus apice lunato-pennaceis^ 



Red-chesnut Paradise-Bird, with gold-green pectoral band 3 

 the two middle tail-feathers filiforn}, with lunated feathered 

 tips, 



Paradisea regia. P. rectricibus duabus intermediis Jiliformibus 



apice lunato-pennaceis, Lin, Syst, Nat. 

 The supposed King of the Greater Birds of Paradise, Edwards^ 



pi 111. 



Le Manucode, Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 4g6, 



Roi des Oiseaux de Paradis, Sonner. voy. pL 95. 



King Paradise-Bird. Lath. syn. 



This is the smallest of all the Paradise-Birds yet 

 discovered, not exceeding the size of a Lark, and 

 usually measuring about five or five inches and a 

 half in length, without reckoning the two middle 



