^00 WHITE-WINGED PARADISE-BIRD. 



all which are jet-black, is a rich golden yellow, 

 heightening on the upper parts into bright saffron- 

 colour: the bill is surrounded at the base by 

 velvet-likQ feathers of a blackish colour : the crown 

 of the head is very slightly crested with recumbent 

 feathers: the tail m even p,t th^ end, and glightly 

 tipped with yellow. Nothing particular seems to 

 be known of the history of this species, which i3 

 supposed to inhabit the same regions as the rest 

 pf the genus. 



WHITE-WINGED PARADISE-BIRD. 



Paradisea leucoptera. P. nigraj cervice cupreo-splendente, remim 

 gibus alhis extus nigro marginatisj cauda hngissima cuneiformi. 

 Lath. ind. orn. 



Black Paradise-Bird, with a coppery gloss on the neck, the 

 quill-feathers white, bordered on the outside with black, and 

 very long cuneated taiL 



White- Winged Paradise-Bird. Lath, syn, suppL 



Described by Mr. Latham : length rather niore 

 than twenty-five inches: general colour blacky 

 with a gloss of copper on the upper parts: bill 

 black, the feathers of the chin almost reaching to 

 the end of the bill: quill-feathers white, with the 

 outer edges black: tail coipposed pf ten feathers, 

 and strongly cuneated, the exterior feathers being 

 about seven inches long, the rest lengthening at 

 intervals towards the two middle ones, which are 

 nineteen or twenty inches long: the wings, when 

 flosed, reach about three inches along the tail. 



