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CHALYBEAN PARADISE-BIRI). 



Paradisea chalybea. P. aureo-atrocosrulea, capistro nigro^ 

 pennis capitis corporisque crispatisy cauda cuneata. 



Blue-black Paradise- Bird^ with a golden lustre, tiie feathers of 

 the head and body crisp6d, and the tail cuneated. 



Paradisea viridis. P. thalassim, dorso abdumine uropygio cauda- 

 que chalyheis, Lin. GmeL 



Calybe de la nouvelle Guinee. Buff, ois. PL Enl. 634. 



L' Oiseau de Paradis verd. Sonner. voy, pi. 9Q. 



Le Calibe. Viellot ois. de Parad. pi. 10. 



Length about sixteen inches: habit somewhat 

 more approaching to the Crow or Grakle kind 

 than in the rest of this genus: colour of the whole 

 bird deep blue-green, with changeable reflexions, 

 and in some lights appearing blackish: on the 

 head and body the feathers are crisped at the tips, 

 giving a peculiar richness to the plumage : the tail 

 is pretty strongly cuneiform, the two middle fea- 

 thers measuring about seven inches, and the two 

 exterior ones scarcely four inches : bill strong and 

 black: legs the same. This species appears to 

 have been first described by Sonnerat. In Monsr. 

 Viellot's figure the tail does not appear to be 

 cuneated, nor is that circumstance mentioned in 

 his description of the bird. 



ENP OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME. 



T. DAVISON, WhileJriars. 



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